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 I’m wrong; this is a masterfully unsettling novel by a writer working at peak power.

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