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i was pretty pumped about this book, because i enjoyed goodman's earlier novels, particularly the first, the lake of dead languages. this one fell short for me, though. it's a mystery type of thing and has two parallel narratives: one about a woman at a famous writers' retreat who is writing a novel about the events that occurred on that same estate in 1893, and then the actual narrative of those events. it's well written, like her other novels, but i think this one bothered me because it dips a little too far into the supernatural. i guess it makes sense, since the legendary events that took place on the estate in 1893 involved a medium who was called to contact the souls of three dead children. eh, i don't know. i guess i just wasn't really in the mood to suspend my disbelief.
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