Nola Aiken Obituary (1936 - 2022) - Brookville, PA - Legacy.com
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Nola Aiken Obituary (1936 - 2022) - Brookville, PA Legacy.comKarin Slaughter discusses 'Pieces of Her' on Netflix - The Washington Post
Karin Slaughter's 2018 thriller, "Pieces of Her," is nearly impossible to put down, but that doesn't mean it's a natural fit for an adaptation. While the novel opens with a riveting scene involving a nice suburban mom dispatching an active shooter with the dexterity of a trained assassin, much of the story unfolds in the mind of her daughter, 31-year-old Andy, as she embarks on a road trip to solve the puzzle of her mother's fractured past. As Andy learns, Laura Oliver, the protective speech pathologist who raised her, has a lot to hide. Netflix's new eight-episode adaptation, starring Toni Colette as Laura and Bella Heathcote as Andy, departs regularly from the source material: The grisly encounter that sets the plot in motion is mercifully less nauseating than the novel; one major character is added; and one villain, securely incarcerated in the book, instead remains at large. But, as Slaughter explained a couple days before the series premiered on Frida...
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