When Emily approaches the car and discovers a woman whose throat has been slashed, she is knocked unconscious. Emily prepares to continue, but Hollis warns her that Pickering is "not a very nice man."Īs Emily continues her daily run, she notices a shiny red car outside a house along the beach that she deduces belongs to Pickering. He has brought along a " niece"-Hollis's polite name for the young women who Pickering lures to his home. During a chance meeting, Hollis tells Emily that Jim Pickering, a man who owns an estate on the island, is back. The only person Emily visits is Deke Hollis, an old friend of her father who runs the drawbridge on the island. ![]() ![]() As her body shrinks, she gets to know the few people that hover around the island (Vermillion Key is mostly devoid of tourists). She eats plain meals and runs for miles every day. She also speaks with Henry, and the two agree that a trial separation is a good idea.Įmily's life becomes quite simple. After their conversation, Emily decides to stay in her father's summer home, near Naples, Florida. She contacts her father and explains her situation. Emily is hurt and runs out of the house, down to a local Holiday Inn. Her husband, Henry, finds out about this habit, and treats it as a psychological reaction to grief. ![]() She believes that "only fast running will do"-she pushes her body to its limits, often vomiting and sweating profusely. The title is an allusion to the fairy tale " The Gingerbread Boy" (also known as "The Gingerbread Man").Īfter her only daughter, Amy, suffers a crib death, Emily takes up running as a way to deal with her pain. The Gingerbread Girl was also released as an audiobook, read by Mare Winningham, by Simon & Schuster Audio on May 6, 2008. It was later included in King's Just After Sunset collection in 2008. The Gingerbread Girl is a novella by American writer Stephen King, originally published in the July 2007 issue of Esquire.
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