Haunt Sweet Home

Haunt Sweet Home

Unabridged

Haunt Sweet Home

Haunt Sweet Home

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Overview

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.

“Don't talk to day about what we do at night.”

When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin's ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along-is herself.

Eerie and empathetic, Haunt Sweet Home is a multifaceted, supernatural exploration of finding your own way into adulthood, and into yourself.


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Praise for Haunt Sweet Home

"Sarah Pinsker delivers yet again. Haunt Sweet Home cuts directly to the heart of a life that feels like it's haunted by the person living it. This one is fraught in all the right places."—Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home

"Kind but not gentle, Pinsker cuts to the core of the lives we craft and those that are imposed on us, and how it feels to be both in the circle by the fire, and forever lurking in the shadowy woods beyond."—Kathleen Jennings, author of Flyaway

"Pinsker pulls off the near-impossible feat of delivering a story that is simultaneously sweet and unnerving, reassuring and frightening."—A.C. Wise, author of The Ghost Sequences

"Threaded through with good humour and riddled with human frailty, Haunt Sweet Home is a creepy, disturbing book. I loved it."—Kaaron Warren, multi-award winning author of Bitters

"Pinsker’s evocative prose turns an amusing reality-show backdrop into a haunting story of hiding from (and discovering) oneself."—Library Journal

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Library Journal

05/01/2024

Mara's life hasn't been going anywhere, and seeing her family during the holidays doesn't help, just before she goes back to college for the third time. Then her cousin Jeremy invites her to be a production assistant on his home-makeover/ghost-hunting reality TV show, but it turns out to not be quite what she expects. Her job is planting fog machines in orchards and creating scares to spook the show's homeowners. Then odd things begin to happen on set, and a new coworker, Jo, begins to insinuate herself into Mara's work and life enough for her to wonder if Jo is better than Mara—or just a better Mara. The novel's plot is supported by short vignettes of what happens on screen in the show, and the reality-TV machinations are a good foil for the underlying action between Mara and Jo. VERDICT Pinsker's (Lost Places) evocative prose turns an amusing reality-show backdrop into a haunting story of hiding from (and discovering) oneself.—Kristi Chadwick

Product Details

BN ID: 2940191554990
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Publication date: 09/03/2024
Edition description: Unabridged
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