English language
Published Nov. 13, 2022 by Penguin Publishing Group.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, …
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
This is probably the scariest book I've read so far in my current journey into horror fiction. I'd good and I'm sure I'll be back for some more G. Hendrix at some point.
This book is funny, sad, family disfunction and scarry.
So, I inhaled this in one day.
Grady Hendrix keeps improving. This is the funniest book I've read by him. It's also the most focused. If The Final Girl Support Group was his most complex novel, How To Sell A Haunted House is him really drilling down on a few issues and knocking it out of the park. This story is about motherhood, and family, and death, and acceptance, and puppets.
So many puppets.
