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Carrie
Carrie is every bullied kid's revenge fantasy, and a warning about what cruelty builds. 🩸
Who it's for
Carrie is King's first novel, about a lonely girl humiliated at school and abused at home by a fanatically religious mother.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Stephen King's debut novel, published in 1974 and set in Chamberlain, Maine. Carrie White is a friendless high-school girl from an abusive, fanatically religious home who discovers she has telekinetic powers. After classmates mock her when she gets her first period in the school showers, Sue Snell, wanting to make amends, asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to take Carrie to the prom.
Where to find it
In print; widely available from libraries (Libby/Hoopla), and as an audiobook. Still in copyright.
Before you start
Heads up: Child abuse and mass death by fire.
Age: Ages 16+
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
