The Turning by Francine Prose

Author:Francine Prose [Prose, Francine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780062190284
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

DEAR SOPHIE,

Isn’t it bizarre how you can find out one tiny bit of information—well, maybe what Linda told me wasn’t exactly tiny—but anyway, you can find out one new thing and after that the whole world looks different? It’s as if you’ve had something wrong with your eyes, and you get new glasses, and the fuzzy outlines get sharp. Maybe sharper than you’d wanted them to be. Maybe sharper than you can stand.

By the time Linda told me about Lucy and Norris, and about Miles getting kicked out of school, I’d basically convinced myself that Miles and Flora were normal kids. A little old-fashioned, a little peculiar, but okay, what do you expect? They’d grown up practically alone on an island.

But now I’ve gone back to seeing them more like I did when I first met them, and all the little things about them I’d kind of stopped noticing—those funny looks they exchange, the way that Flora will start to say something, and one eyebrow twitch from Miles is all it takes to shut her up—now I notice them all the time. I’d told Linda it was just brother-sister stuff, but maybe it’s more than that.

Now I’ve stopped trying to make excuses for them and gone completely in the other direction, and the kids seem really peculiar and maybe damaged. Secretive and strange.

Sometimes I have debates with myself. I wonder: Did Norris and Lucy do something evil to the kids? Or did nothing happen? I don’t know why, but I feel like all my own weird experiences—the seagull, the scratched-out photo, to say nothing of the ghost at the library window—are starting to seem like evidence that something terrible occurred. I’m sorry, but since I set foot on the boat to come to this island, I’ve been feeling … not like myself at all. Why? What is it about this place, these kids?

More and more, I feel like I’m being paid to take care of kids who act friendly and open but who are keeping their little stash of precious secrets to themselves. If the kids were victims, I feel sorry for them. But I don’t think they are. In fact they almost seem like they have this bizarre kind of power. I think they enjoy their secrets, that it makes them feel special somehow.

Only half my mind is on whatever we’re supposedly doing—tennis lessons, rowing, picnics. And half my brain is trying to think of some way to ask about Norris and Lucy. I think I’ve become a little obsessed with Norris and Lucy.

Beyond the question of whether or not they hurt the children, it’s almost as if I’m jealous. I keep thinking about how when you and I first got together, I couldn’t get over the fact that you used to go out with Josh, though you always said it meant nothing. Now it’s almost as if I’m jealous of Norris and Lucy for having a much bigger effect on the kids than I’ll ever have. They’ve left the kids with a strong memory, a feeling: devotion or fear, I can’t tell.

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