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    "description": "Gillian Flynn\u2019s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone.\n\nA canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the \"psychic\" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan\u2019s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan\u2019s teenage stepson, doesn\u2019t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. \n\n\u201cThe Grownup,\u201d which originally appeared as \u201cWhat Do You Do?\u201d in George R. R. Martin\u2019s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world\u2019s most original and skilled voices in fiction.",
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