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Break The Bodies, Haunt The Bones
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Swine Hill was full of the dead. Their ghosts were thickest near the abandoned downtown, where so many of the town's hopes had died generation by generation. They lingered in the places that mattered to them, and people avoided those streets, locked those doors, stopped going into those rooms . . . They could hurt you. Worse, they could change you.
Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn't want to know. Henry, Jane's brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is possessed by a lonely spirit that burns anyone she touches. In Swine Hill, there are more dead than living.
When new arrivals begin scoring precious jobs at the last factory in town, both the living and the dead are furious, sparking a conflagration. Buffeted by rage on all sides, Jane must find a way to save her haunted family and escape the town before it kills them.
"Extraordinary . . . It is Upton Sinclair's
, mixed with H. G. Wells's
, set in the creepiest screwed-up town since
. . . [A] major achievement." —Adam-Troy Castro,
Magazine
"A haunting story . . . gripping." —Chris L. Terry, author of
and
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“Caught between a 3.75 and a 4. Such a bizarre book but I liked the first 2/3 of it but the last 1/3 just kind of happened for me”
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“This book was a mess. It had a cool concept that kept me hooked but the writer had way too many stories within stories that he really struggled to combine to make coherent sense.
I liked the idea of people being haunted the way they were in this book, but adding in the convoluted alien story was weird and made very little sense to the theme of the book. It just kept getting messier and messier as the story went on, and I found myself just begging for this to be over by the final 45 pages.
Again, it had its moments, the concept was cool, some of this book was really great, and some not so great. 3/5.”
About Micah Dean Hicks
MICAH DEAN HICKS is the author of the story collection
—a book of dark fairy tales and bizarre fables that won the 2012 New American Fiction Prize. He is also the winner of the 2014 Calvino Prize judged by Robert Coover, the 2016 Arts and Letters Prize judged by Kate Christensen, and the 2015 Wabash Prize judged by Kelly Link. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines ranging from the
to
to the
. Hicks teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
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