Sharing Stories... A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

A Head Full of Ghosts 

by Paul Tremblay

Synopsis: 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 descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. 

Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories begin to surface--and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed.

I bought this for my daughter for All Hallows Read not knowing at the time that this is set in the dinky town where she was going to college. 

It is hard to say much about this with out spoiling the story. So I won't say anything. I made my sister read this so I had someone to discuss this with! 

"Whaaaaaaatttttt?" Definitely a trippy story. 

Have you ever read something that you needed to immediately talk about? 

 

 “I open my eyes. Everything is old and neglected and in some ways exactly the same. But the dust and cobwebs and cracked plaster and peeling wallpaper seem faked somehow. Passage of time as a prop to the story, the story that has been told and retold so often it has lost its meaning, even to those of us who lived through it.” - Chapter 1