Locked away with nothing but some old books and their raging hormones, Cathy and her brother, Chris, fall in love. After the death of Cathy’s father, her destitute mother Corrine is forced to move them back home with her wealthy parents, sex-obsessed Evangelical loons who lock Cathy and her three siblings in an attic, so that Corrine can pretend to be young and childless and land a rich second husband. Flowers is narrated by an adolescent girl named Cathy Dollanganger. Andrews’s minor classic of sibling ribaldry was published in 1979, sold millions of copies, spawned endless series of sex-filled “family sagas,” and turned Andrews into a staple of teen girls’ furtive hiding places. Andrews’s teen-incest classic Flowers in the Attic.īackground: V.C. Now, years later, we will take a look at these classics in a more objective, unforgiving adult light: Are they really the best ever? How do they hold up now? We’ve already reconsidered a number of once-beloved entertainments. The Nostalgia Fact-Check is a recurring Vulture feature in which we revisit a seminal movie, TV show, or album that reflexively evinces an “Oh my God, that was the best ever!” response by a certain demographic, owing to it having been imprinted on them early.
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