Navigating relationships can easily be one of the toughest things that each one of us has to tackle every day. What is that person thinking? How do we approach this? Is this acceptable to everyone? We are plagued by doubts day in and day out, regarding the people we are surrounded by. No matter how independent, we can never fully shake off the influence of the people we are surrounded by.
But how much can one person influence the other? Can they be or not be such an impact on you? From doing things together, unconsciously picking up and reflecting those around us, to setting expectations, the inside joke, figuring out what the other person is thinking, to where we stand, relationships are fraught with ups and downs that are tough to navigate. But what extremes can it go to?
Gillian Flynn gives us a glimpse of such a relationship in her book, Gone Girl.
Two people, Nick and Amy, get together in New York. They fall in love, get married, face recession, and move to the country, and time reveals that they are not the persons they fell in love with, nor were they completely honest with each other. A failing marriage in small town America and unfaithfulness is a prelude to Amazing Amy’s disappearance n their anniversary. With nothing but Amy’s customary treasure hunt as their clue, th police and Nick try to find her, in the face of increasing evidence of foul play, pointing to Nick himself .
Will Amy be found? What happened to these two people? Can they complete each other? In what way?
But how much can one person influence the other? Can they be or not be such an impact on you? From doing things together, unconsciously picking up and reflecting those around us, to setting expectations, the inside joke, figuring out what the other person is thinking, to where we stand, relationships are fraught with ups and downs that are tough to navigate. But what extremes can it go to?
Gillian Flynn gives us a glimpse of such a relationship in her book, Gone Girl.
Two people, Nick and Amy, get together in New York. They fall in love, get married, face recession, and move to the country, and time reveals that they are not the persons they fell in love with, nor were they completely honest with each other. A failing marriage in small town America and unfaithfulness is a prelude to Amazing Amy’s disappearance n their anniversary. With nothing but Amy’s customary treasure hunt as their clue, th police and Nick try to find her, in the face of increasing evidence of foul play, pointing to Nick himself .
Will Amy be found? What happened to these two people? Can they complete each other? In what way?
This book virtually topples the concept of marriage upside down, a bleak, destructive relationship that cannot be broken. Everything held sacred in a relationship is thrown out of the window. In fact, it shows us why we get caught in the very things that can destroy us, and why we hold on to those. The book offers no answers, just a unique look into the other side of human relationships, of mutual misunderstanding, distrust, of complements and two halves of a whole. It merits us to look back, and try to find patterns in our own lives (hopefully for all of us, never as extreme in the book), but somewhere, find resonance. For the author bravely uncovers everything that can go wrong between two people in the worst way, tackling relationship issues that are in the depths of our hearts and swept under the dignified rug but never spoken aloud.
A tad scary, but brilliant plot by the author. If anything, it reads better than either, thriller, mystery or suspense, and has taken a hybrid of these genres to a new level. The scope of the novel itself sends us spinning. It makes you rethink all relationships ,for better or for worse. Best read in breaks, and don’t let it give you nightmares. Goosebumps are unavoidable.
Cheers. Happy reading. Or not.
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