![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until the long-dead children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown (“Goodnight Moon”) moves into her home. The mother in “The Upstairs House” (Harper, $27), Chicagoan Julia Fine’s unfairly overlooked novel from early this year, is struggling to connect with her newborn daughter. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. If the men in ghost stories tend to see a ghost as a challenge to the natural order, the women in a ghost story often become vessels for unaired resentment and potential. Chicago’s Gillian Flynn followed “Gone Girl” with “The Grownup,” a 2015 novella about a young fraudulent spirit medium who stumbles across real spirits. Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” might be one of three books I’d save from a fire. No wonder some of our best contemporary ghost books are by Black women - Angela Flournoy’s “The Turner House,” Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing.” But then women in general often have a finer hand with ghosts than men. Even a bestselling paperback as once ubiquitous (and really bad) as “The Amityville Horror” arrived here, summoning a so-called “ancient Indian burial ground,” noting the guilt beneath American ghost stories. What does this ghost want from us might seem like a minor question for an author as important as Erdrich, but again, she’s working important territory. ![]()
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