50. A Haunting of Novels

The pages of these engrossing new novels are haunted by the ghosts we’ve long known, along with the ones born out of our current techno-capitalist age. The jump scares here come from isolation, guilt, technology, corporate bureaucracy, and the corpse of one reanimated executive director. In Kim Fu’s The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts, a woman is left unmoored by the passing of her cherished mother—and her final directive to purchase real estate. Weaving together the perspectives of multiple fascinating and endearing characters, Daniel Zomparelli’s Super Castle Fun Park explores our abiding need for connection, with both wit and melancholy. We Are Underlings by Doretta Lau is a wildly imaginative, absurdist dark comedy, set at the only theme park devoted to death, dying, and the afterlife.

Moderated by Robert Wiersema. 

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