Sharp Objects

by Gillian Flynn

“She’s the Queen of the Dead,” Amma beamed. “She was so beautiful, Hades stole her and took her to the underworld to be his wife. But her mother was so fierce, she forced Hades to give Persephone back. But only for six months each year. So she spends half her life with the dead, and half with the living.”

“I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been,”

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.