Playworld: A Novel Abby Phillip * The Bad Seed

* The Bad Seed

the payload is switched out

speed junkies

Sociopathic criminals

like the names of all the birds in the trees and new expressions that are so much fun to say

Playworld: A Novel Abby Phillip * The Bad SeedA big and big hearted novelone enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut (A brilliant, powerful, and memorable book The New York Times) In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me