GROWNUP by Gillian Flynn

Flynn writes characters that tend to make questionable decisions; think Nick Dunn in GONE GIRL. Why the hell did he not retain an attorney once it was discovered Amy was missing or dead. The spouse is always the primary suspect. And why did Amy sell their townhome in New York, a city she loved and loathed leaving, to move to a podunk town to nurse her mother-in-law till she died.  Why did she give Nick the money to open a bar in a Podunk town of all things? Or how about Libby Day from DARK PLACES who went through money like water through a sieve, without any means of support. She made one bad decision after another. And in GROWNUP the unnamed narrator struggles through life making ends meet as a psychic, until she meets a young woman, Susan, who believes she sees ghosts in the eerie Victorian home she lives with her teenage son. Once the narrator entangles herself in Susan’s life, believing to finally found a cash-cow she begins to wonder what she has gotten herself into. And again, before the book has found its conclusion she makes a decision that leave us all wondering what the hell was she thinking.  GROWNUP is a short story repackaged as a novella, and if you are a Gillian Flynn fan you will find it has the twists that you would expect from a Gillian Flynn book.  I am wondering when she will write another novel instead of re-warming previous works.