Rachel L. Jacobs, Jane Oppenheimer, and Rene Ruiz lend their considerable talents to this story of a house bequeathed to a family by an unknown aunt. The Baker family is vacationing at the house. While they had hoped the vacation would bring them closer, instead they start turning on each other--with devastating consequences. Oppenheimer tells the aunt's backstory, tracing her path from family outcast to vengeful woman. Ruiz portrays the father, an optimist who is the brunt of family jokes, and son JJ, an awkward, overweight, pimply teenager who is tired of being ostracized. Jacobs portrays the perfectionist mom, Jenna, who is embarrassed by her family and obsessed with appearance, along with daughter Jessie, who is obsessed with her weight and social standing. Dysfunction is this family's legacy. L.M.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
What if revenge ripples and echoes through time?
You can't choose your family or your destiny or your legacy. But once upon a time, a woman named Ava St. James had tried to build happiness upon the remains of her broken heart. For better or worse. Decades later, the Bakers are headed for a perfect family vacation. A full month at a house by the lake; the house passed down from a mysterious aunt no one ever talks about. Love and good intentions aside, what begins like a relaxing vacation turns into a nightmare as each of the Bakers' nerves slowly but steadily begin to wear away at the edges. Is it their fraught family dynamics or is something more sinister at work?
The house has welcomed them, but will it ever let them leave?
For readers who enjoy The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, and Devil House by John Darnielle.
What if revenge ripples and echoes through time?
You can't choose your family or your destiny or your legacy. But once upon a time, a woman named Ava St. James had tried to build happiness upon the remains of her broken heart. For better or worse. Decades later, the Bakers are headed for a perfect family vacation. A full month at a house by the lake; the house passed down from a mysterious aunt no one ever talks about. Love and good intentions aside, what begins like a relaxing vacation turns into a nightmare as each of the Bakers' nerves slowly but steadily begin to wear away at the edges. Is it their fraught family dynamics or is something more sinister at work?
The house has welcomed them, but will it ever let them leave?
For readers who enjoy The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, and Devil House by John Darnielle.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940192629932 |
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| Publisher: | CamCat Publishing |
| Publication date: | 10/29/2024 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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