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    The Good Daughter

    Written by Alexandra Burt

    Narrated by Hillary Huber and Ann Marie Lee

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    About this audiobook

    From the author of Remember Mia comes the tale of a young woman in search of her past, and the mother who will do anything to keep it hidden...

    What if you were the worst crime your mother ever committed?

    Dahlia Waller's childhood memories consist of stuffy cars, seedy motels, and a rootless existence traveling the country with her eccentric mother. Now grown, she desperately wants to distance herself from that life. Yet one thing is stopping her from moving forward: she has questions.

    In order to understand her past, Dahlia must go back. Back to her mother in the stifling town of Aurora, Texas. Back into the past of a woman on the brink of madness. But after she discovers three grave-like mounds on a neighboring farm, she'll learn that in her mother's world of secrets, not all questions are meant to be answered...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9781524702427
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    The Good Daughter
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    Alexandra Burt

    Alexandra was born in Fulda, Germany, a baroque town in the East Hesse Highlands. After the birth of her daughter she became a freelance translator, determined to acknowledge the voice in the back of her head prompting her to break into literary translations. The union never panned out and she decided to tell her own stories instead. Alexandra is a proud member of Sisters In Crime, a nationwide network of women crime writers.

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    Reviews for The Good Daughter

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    • 4/5
      I had trouble getting into this at first because of how it bounced around but once I hit the halfway point I really could not put it down.

      Not a light fluffy read or something that I will read again but a good read all the same.
    • 3/5
      This was just an okay book for me. It started out promising enough but quickly lost steam. It got a little confusing as the chapters jumped from Dahlia to Quinn to Aella to Memphis. I figured out the 'mystery' pretty early on and it was just a matter of waiting for the characters to put the pieces together. The characters didn't have a lot of depth to them and the book itself was pretty slow. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this book.
    • 4/5
      A childhood filled with secrets about her identity and her life, never going to school, and always on the move until her mother finally came back to Aurora, Texas. That is what Dahlia dealt with throughout her childhood.Dahlia left it all when she could and didn't return to Aurora until 15 years later only to find her mother still secretive and not in good health mentally or physically.Dahlia finds out things that now make sense and a lot of things that don't as she remembers how they lived and begins to questions her mother.THE GOOD DAUGHTER was very well written, had a different but good plot, and is a page-turning read.There is one mysterious character that didn't seem to have a connection at first, but then everything fell into place for a truly marvelous, unique book.THE GOOD DAUGHTER is for those readers who like family sagas but a family that is a bit strange. I enjoyed THE GOOD DAUGHTER because of the mystery and the unconventional characters. 4/5This book was given to me free of charge and without compensation by the publisher in return for an honest review.
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars.

      The Good Daughter by Alexandra Burt is a perplexing mystery about a woman who is determined to get to the bottom of her unconventional past. At the same time, she is also trying to uncover the truth about a victim of a violent crime.

      Until returning to Aurora, TX, Dahlia Waller's childhood was mostly nomadic as she and her mother, Memphis, moved from town to town. Frustrated by her mother's refusal to answer her numerous questions about their past, Dahlia leaves town after graduating from high school only to move back fifteen years later. Not long after her return to Aurora, she stumbles across a woman buried in the woods and afterwards, she is plagued by strange visions that seem to be connected to the woman she just rescued. When her mom is found wandering far from home, Dahlia's investigation about where Memphis was discovered turns up unexpected information that helps her unravel the mystery of her past.

      The first quarter of the novel is a rather confusing since the chapters are narrated by different characters. The chapters alternate between points of view and with very little backstory of any of the narrators, it is a bit of a convoluted mess trying to figure out what is going on. The readers' patience does finally pay off and a picture of where the story is headed eventually becomes clear. The overall storyline then becomes somewhat predictable and it is extremely easy to know where Memphis's revelations are going to lead. The story arc with the woman Dahlia discovers in the woods feels mostly like an afterthought to the main storyline but it is completely wrapped up by novel's end. The characters are interesting but they do not have much depth.

      The Good Daughter by Alexandra Burt is a little slow until about the halfway point when all of the various threads finally begin to come together. There are a few unexpected twists but overall, there are not many surprises as Dahlia finally learns the truth about her past.
    • 4/5
      This story follows the tale of three women, Memphis, Dahlia and Quinn. Dahlia has to understand her past and to do this she has to go back.I quite enjoyed this book. A lot of readers have said it to be too slow and have given up. I agree the story is a slow burner but for me it didn't matter. I found myself drawn into the story and the characters and wanted to know what happened in the past and why.This book is not a thriller so does not have the pace of one. This book is a story of three women, all connected, how and why. I enjoyed the stories and have to say it wasn't hard working what did happen.I enjoyed this book more than what I thought I would but didn't really like the ending, hence only four stars.
    • 4/5
      MYSTERY/SUSPENSEAlexandra BurtThe Good Daughter: A NovelBerkley Publishing GroupPaperback, 978-0-4514-8811-4 (also available as an e-book and on Audible), 400 pgs., $16.00February 7, 2017 “The dead sometimes remain and nothing good has ever come from sticking around.” Eighteen-year-old Dahlia Waller left the small East Texas town of Aurora right after high school graduation and never looked back. Fifteen difficult, disappointing years later she returns, moving in with her mother, Memphis, determined to finally get some answers to her past. Who is Dahlia’s father? Why did she and her mother move so often, usually in the middle of the night (“another one of her cloak-and-dagger operations”)? Why did Dahlia not attend school until the eighth grade? Why did Memphis never sign a lease or take a job that required paperwork? “This child [Dahlia] has called on fate to stomp its foot, determined to resolve itself.” When Dahlia discovers the body of a woman half-buried alive in what locals call the “Whispering Woods,” she sets a series of events in motion that upend her life and the lives of everyone around her. The secrets her mother has kept for half a lifetime begin to emerge and unleash a chain of events that we’re not sure they can survive. The Good Daughter: A Novel by Alexandra Burt is an eerily atmospheric blend of mystery, suspense, and the paranormal. The Good Daughter is an exploration of how the brain functions—the generation and assimilation of emotions, the interpretation of sensory impressions, the power of suggestion, and the processes of memory, and asks, What do we owe the living and the dead? What is freedom, and does the truth truly set you free? The narrative moves between Dahlia’s first-person account and the third-person accounts of three other women: Memphis, her fragile mother (“Memphis Waller is no longer a Pollock painting, full of vibrancy and complex colors. She is a mere watercolor image, watered down so much that she almost vanishes”); Quinn, a damaged, unhappily married woman (“infertile … as if she were a stretch of land without any rain, and littered with rocks”); and Aella, a reclusive woman who lives in the woods “with potions and salves and bottles containing strange things.” Well and intricately plotted, usually moving quickly, Burt’s story spends as much time in the past as in the present. Subplots enrich and inform the main narrative, and well-placed clues (including the structure of the narratives themselves) tantalize. Burt occasionally strays into the purple (“her pores fecund with the scent of transgression”), but not often enough to distract. There’s something about East Texas. If you’ve spent time in the Big Thicket, or wandered off the trails around Caddo Lake, you know what I’m talking about: a sometimes unsettlingly feeling of the primeval, of something gathering itself, of being observed by hidden eyes. This atmosphere inspires a subgenre I call East Texas Gothic. The Good Daughter joins the ranks of Cynthia Bond’s Ruby and Keija Parssinen’s The Unraveling of Mercy Louis as a great example of this. The Good Daughter had me listening more closely to the sound of my home contracting in the cool of the night after a particularly warm February day, and doing double-takes at movement caught by the corner of my eye. Originally published in Lone Star Literary Life.