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When a washed‑out man finds a baby abandoned in the forest, he brings her home, and he and his wife raise her in their basement. After a sudden, devastating event, their son Jerry removes the girl to Stockholm in hopes of a fresh start. In the city, he enters her into a nationwide singing competition. A young girl, feeling out of place, watches the performance on television and the two become an ominous duo, setting the stage for a story of adolescent angst, the dark side of viral fame, and psychological horror.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Horror/Psychological Horror
Authors: John Ajvide Lindqvist
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