Just Like Home

Published: 2022
Language: English

When her mother calls and tells her to come home, Vera obeys — even though home means the notorious Crowder House, built by her serial-killer father and still holding the bodies he buried beneath its foundations. Her homecoming is complicated further by an artist who has moved into the guest house and is slowly cannibalizing her childhood for material, insisting he isn't the one leaving notes written in her father's handwriting.

Sarah Gailey builds a gothic thriller around inherited guilt and complicated love, forcing Vera to confront exactly how deep her family's rot runs.

Prose complexity: 7/10

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Sarah Gailey

Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in California. Their nonfiction has been published by dozens of venues internationally including Locus and the Boston Globe. Their fiction has been published internationally in over six different languages. Their debut novel, Magic for Liars, was an LA Times bestseller. Their most recent novel, The Echo Wife, is available now everywhere books are sold. You can find links to their work at sarahgailey.com and on social media at @gaileyfrey. Image ©...