Stephanie Kuehn is a clinical psychologist and author best known for writing several freestanding psychological thrillers. She debuted her writing career with Charm & Strange, which won the William Morris Award in 2014. Stephanie Kuehn raised in Berkeley, California, a quirky sort of place full of bookstores. As an infant, she was adopted by a father that was an editor and journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. As such, hence she spent a lot of her childhood with persons that had a passion and love for telling stories. From a very young age, the budding author was introduced to books, and was an employee in one of the bookstores. She would visit the bookstores every day after school and read everything that she could, though she particularly
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Her novel Charm & Strange is a story about the effects of trauma on people. The novel through the lead character Win asserts that people’s adulthood is largely influenced by their traumatic childhood experiences. The character experiences an unwanted attention of a girl and a random act of violence, which affects him throughout his life. In the novel Complicit, the author writes about psychological identity in a Hitchcock like film atmosphere. Just like in Hitchcock films, the novel’s characters have a fatal flaw that always catches up to them regardless of their actions to stave them off. The novel Delicate Monsters takes a different approach to psychological suspense as it is about a young adult sociopath, and her relationship to two brothers that are her friends. However just like Stephanie’s previous novels, the book has the odd and dark themes and a moral ambiguity that makes it so …show more content…
Two years past, Jamie Henry had been relived when his sister got sent to juvenile detention after she was found guilty of burning down a neighbor’s barn. He was not alone in this as the entire town was glad to have the insolent girl go away. She had not always been a juvenile delinquent as she had only taken up her despicable behaviors of lying, stealing, and drinking in the previous two years. She is now completely in the dark side and even plays mind games with other children in the
Her novel Charm & Strange is a story about the effects of trauma on people. The novel through the lead character Win asserts that people’s adulthood is largely influenced by their traumatic childhood experiences. The character experiences an unwanted attention of a girl and a random act of violence, which affects him throughout his life. In the novel Complicit, the author writes about psychological identity in a Hitchcock like film atmosphere. Just like in Hitchcock films, the novel’s characters have a fatal flaw that always catches up to them regardless of their actions to stave them off. The novel Delicate Monsters takes a different approach to psychological suspense as it is about a young adult sociopath, and her relationship to two brothers that are her friends. However just like Stephanie’s previous novels, the book has the odd and dark themes and a moral ambiguity that makes it so …show more content…
Two years past, Jamie Henry had been relived when his sister got sent to juvenile detention after she was found guilty of burning down a neighbor’s barn. He was not alone in this as the entire town was glad to have the insolent girl go away. She had not always been a juvenile delinquent as she had only taken up her despicable behaviors of lying, stealing, and drinking in the previous two years. She is now completely in the dark side and even plays mind games with other children in the