Super excited for this book's release! It was totally gripping. I almost hate to draw comparisons for such an original book, but for folks who loved Night Film by Marisha Pessl, A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw, or even House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski -- this will be right up your alley.
I was sucked right in by the author's note at the beginning. If our narrator didn't have a different name than the author, I would have almost believed him. Harper arrives at Clifford Island in search of his missing sister Willow, who he's (regrettably) barely spoken with in recent years, even after the death of Willow's son. As a journalist, he sets out to figure out what's happened to her, but it's immediately obvious that there are bigger questions to be answered. Why is everyone so weird? Why is it so hard to find any mention of Cilfford Island in the news or online? And why is everyone so obsessed with the night of the slow speed chase of O.J. Simpson's Ford Bronco?
This book has it all: fun 1990s references, honest meditations on grief and memory, and great gory ghosts. I also loved Lily, a Clifford teen who would definitely be the last character standing if she were in a slasher film. Get into it!