A Decade Reading V.C. Andrews

It starts with a gift, the passing down of a sacred text: the V.C. Andrews novel complete with dramatic stepback cover. A helpless teenage girl stares through the opening and into your soul. She’s surrounded by a disapproving grandmother or step-mother, perhaps even an angry sibling or lover (sometimes both).
The book comes from a slightly older friend or a cool aunt, perhaps with the hushed whisper of how…