A Head Full of Ghosts

286 pages

English language

Published Nov. 6, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-06-236323-7
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OCLC Number:
906020638

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5 stars (2 reviews)

"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's bizarre outbursts and subsequent descent into madness. As their home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts plight for a reality television show."--Book jacket.

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5 stars

Despite the fantastical nature of the tale, Tremblay takes great care to present it as an eminently relatable situation; if you were to change demonic possession to cancer, the power of the story would alter very little. I admit that A Head Full of Ghosts confounded my expectations, as I had presumed this to be a, well, a novel of ghosts (potentially a whole headful of them). I do so love it when Iā€™m wrong; this is a masterfully unsettling novel by a writer working at peak power.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Fear
  • Schizophrenia
  • Paranoia
  • Eschatology