My Sweet Audrina
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| Author | Virginia C. Andrews |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Gothic horror |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Released | 1982 |
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| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 0671729462 (1990 reissue) |
'My Sweet Audrina' is a novel by Virginia C. Andrews. It was the only standalone novel published during Andrews' lifetime.
[edit] Plot summary
It is the story of a young girl, named Audrina. She has what she calls "a Swiss-cheese memory" - full of holes. Her family keeps her isolated from outsiders and has regular routine events, like "Tuesday Teatoime" and visiting the grave of Audrina's dead older sister (also named Audrina), who was mysteriously killed one day in the woods. Though she never actually met this sister, day after day, her controlling father tells her stories about his "First and Best Audrina", and how one day she too will be as gifted and special. He makes her sit in a rocking chair that was once the first Audrina's, so that she will fill with her gifts, but something about this dead older sister and the way her parents act tell her that there is something more to the story. Some deep, dark secret that everyone knows; everyone except My Sweet Audrina.
SPOILER ALERT:
After she grows older and is no longer under her family's exclusive influence, Audrina develops a relationship with a local boy, Arden. With his help and sometimes despite him, finds out that there was never an older sister; there is only one Audrina, her. While coming home from school, she took a shortcut through the woods where she was ambushed and gang-raped by a group of local boys. Arden had witnessed the attack, but did not participate. He could not stop it and was afraid to report it. Because of her severe shock, her family decided to purge her memory of the event by making her a new person. "...It wasn't you, it was the other Audrina." They drugged her and some routines, like 'Tuesday Tea', were performed sometimes twice a week to distort her sense of time.
Luckily the revelation does not destroy her sense of self and instead confirms it.
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