Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey, (List Price: $26. You spend a lot of time basically knowing what’s likely around the corner, but still being lured in by how twisty it gets – until you don’t know who to root for, or if you’re supposed to be rooting for anyone, or if the serial killer is the villain. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories shes come back to the home of a serial killer. Just memories and remembrances looping around and around in both a slow lead-up to the past and a constant questioning. Just Like Home by Sarah GaileyCome home. This is the kind of book that’s hard to summarize because ultimately very little happens or a lot happens but it’s all hinted-at and spoilers. How home isn’t always something safe (that last one is something Gailey especially makes haunting amoeba strips from). In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - shes. How families can be a confusion of unkindness and violence and complicity. Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey Come home. Sarah Gailey leaned all the way into the truism that haunted house stories are a way to talk about how horrifying domesticity can be.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |