This book was recommended to me and I am glad that I took the plunge....it's not a book I would normally pick up. It deals with demonology and has a "ghost story" aspect to it. But at its heart, it's a coming-of-age story of a sweet and precocious young girl, Sylvie, who is a member of a very interesting family. Here's the description on the Westchester Library site:
It begins with a call one snowy February night. Lying in her bed, young
Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is
not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and
father have an uncommon occupation: helping "haunted souls" find peace.
And yet something in Sylvie senses that this call is different from the
others, especially when they are lured to the old church on the
outskirts of town. Once there, her parents disappear, one after the
other, behind the church's red door, leaving Sylvie alone in the car.
Not long after, she drifts off to sleep, only to wake to the sound of
gunfire. As the story weaves back and forth through the years leading up
to that night and the months following, the ever-inquisitive Sylvie
searches for answers and uncovers secrets that have haunted her family
for years. Capturing the vivid eeriness of Stephen King's works and the
quirky tenderness of John Irving's novels, Help for the Haunted is told
in the captivating voice of a young heroine who is determined to
discover the truth about what happened on that winter night.
Searles has written a book that deals with strange people, but it's really quite a believable story.
It's great storytelling about human beings who
are flawed and all too real.
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