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May 21, 2020
Today's Featured Title and Contest
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Friday, May 22nd at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of GHOSTS OF HARVARD by Francesca Serritella, which is now available and is a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest:
GHOSTS OF HARVARD by Francesca Serritella
A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts hearing voices.
Cadence Archer arrives on Harvard’s campus desperate to understand why her brother, Eric, a genius who developed paranoid schizophrenia, took his own life there the year before. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady’s life, and while her decision to follow in her brother’s footsteps threatens to break her family apart, she is haunted by questions of what she might have missed. And there’s only one place to find answers.
As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure at Harvard, she investigates her brother’s final year, armed only with a blue notebook of Eric’s cryptic scribblings. She knew he had been struggling with paranoia, delusions and illusory enemies --- but what tipped him over the edge? With her suspicions mounting, Cady herself begins to hear voices, seemingly belonging to three ghosts who walked the university’s hallowed halls --- or huddled in its slave quarters. Among them is a person whose name has been buried for centuries, and another whose name mankind will never forget.
Does she share Eric’s illness, or is she tapping into something else? Cady doesn’t know how or why these ghosts are contacting her, but as she is drawn deeper into their worlds, she believes they’re moving her closer to the truth about Eric, even as keeping them secret isolates her further. Will listening to these voices lead her to the one voice she craves --- her brother’s --- or will she follow them down a path to her own destruction?
- Click here to read our review.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to read Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
- Click here to watch Carol's "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Francesca Serritella.
- Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview.
- Click here to visit Francesca Serritella's website.
- Connect with Francesca Serritella on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Click here to enter the contest
by 11:59am ET on Friday, May 22nd.
In a recent "Bookreporter Talks To" interview, Carol talked to
Francesca Serritella about GHOSTS OF HARVARD.
Click on the image above for the video and here for the podcast.
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