The Almost Moon Alice Sebold

A book by the author of The Lovely Bones, about family relationships. The jacket notes say "Claire and Helen Knightly are a parent and child locked in a relationship so unrelenting they have become the center of each others worlds." But as the book opens, Helen has killed her demented mother, and stuffed her body into the freezer. In the next 24 hours she tells her husband, children, and we get to know her father, neighbors, and friends. Really well-written, and very readable.