The secret
by Eva Hoffman
Iris Surrey seems to have a perfectly normal childhood. She lives with her mother in a rambling wooden house, in a small college town not far from Chicago. But something isn't quite right in her perfect, bell-jar world. There may be something wrong with her mother. Or with her. Or with her mother and her. Small disturbances lead Iris to suspect a deeper peculiarity in the very fabric of her life, something not quite ... natural.
FictionMothers and daughtersYoung womenIris Surrey (Fictitious character)Identity (Psychology)New York Times reviewedMothers and daughters, fictionFiction, psychologicalIllinois, fictionYoung women, fiction