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“I expect it might seem the storyplot I am going to let you know is untrue or perversely gothic in a few unhealthy way. You might even think I’ve exaggerated the reality to be able to twist this book into a modern-day metaphor on the exploitation of human creation, as did Mary Shelley with Frankenstein. Maybe you’ll think I’m seeking to spook you with a psychological tale of any murderous double as Edgar Allan Poe wrote in “William Wilson,” or even to stir up family shame as Hawthorne did in The House of the Seven Gables. But my story is entirely different.”
So commences Jack Gantos’ unnerving drama about three generations of family and friends in a little western Pennsylvania town, held together by the secrets of obsessional mother love–a love so blood-bound that, once revealed, it has no choice but to turn against its keepers.
