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Mystery, Menace and Motherhood in “The Familiar Dark”

Amy Engel’s The Familiar Dark (Dutton) begins in the darkness, in the final moments of the life of Junie Taggert, a twelve-year-old girl murdered alongside her best friend, Izzy, and laid to rest in an abandoned playground. Junie’s single mother, Eve, receives the devastating news from her brother Cal, a…
Nikki Erlick
April 1, 2020