LovedIt was a book series that I was so sad to come to the end of cuz like we're going through the entire life cycles of certain characters. You're seeing the kind of dynamic of the family change over the years.
The House (1983)
Creators: Loved At last Oscar Caskey and his new bride Elinor move into the beautiful house that was the reluctant wedding gift of Oscar's selfish mother Mary-Love. The house becomes the hub of Caskey family life, causing Mary-Love to resent her daughter-in-law all the more. But the house seems haunted since the moment it was built, and Elinor's sickly young daughter Frances senses a sinister power waiting to be set free.
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LovedThis Michael McDowell is so amazingly skilled and so understands the world and the characters and the pace and the speed and the cattiness between those characters and the relationships between those characters in Southern reality and Southern Gothic and Southern family dynamics. This feels to me like it's a Tennessee Williams play directed by Tim Burton.
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Michael McDowellAt the crest of the worst flood in Perdido, Alabama's history, mysterious newcomer Elinor Dammert is rescued from the uppermost floor of an abandoned hotel. The town soon grows to love Elinor in spite of her unspoken past and her eccentric habits, and Oscar Caskey, head of the town's most powerful and influential family, soon takes her for his bride. But Oscar's mother, greedy and controlling Mary-Love Caskey, recognizes in Elinor a will as powerful as her own, and begins to suspect that Elinor's origins are more sinister than anyone can imagine.
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