A Small Dark Place (Advance Reader's Edition) by Schenk, Martin - 1997

US: Villard Books. New York. 1997, 1997 (Advance Reader's Edition). Book has been read but in good condtion. Some bumping on the top, tail of spine, edges, corners. Outer edges could have yellowing, browning, stains, foxing. A poor family in Kansas with nothing to go on in their lives decides to stage a fall of their 8-year old son into a 90-feet deep shaft, so that they will get media coverage and support from people all over US. Instead of the son, their even younger daughter falls in. When she is rescued, she doesn't return as the same person, she brings something back with her. The family gets rich and Andromeda returns to avenge her fate along punish those who benefited from her tragedy. Dark, creepy, scary, gory... one hell of a book. 1997. A2.