The Girl who Would Speak for the Dead

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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Expanded version of The tea house.
In 1925, at her family's suburban Philadelphia estate, 13-year-old Emily Stewart discovers she can make a loud rapping noise with her ankle. With her sly twin brother, Michael, Emily entertains gullible schoolmates with "knockings" that spirits purportedly make to answer questions about the afterlife. When adults who have suffered the loss of loved ones start consulting her as a spirit medium, her efforts to give them consolation begin to seem increasingly like cruel deceptions. Based loosely on true events from the early 20th century.
Contents: Tea house.

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Never mind. submitted by Sara W on August 25, 2011, 7:20pm It sounded really great. But it put me off almost immediately. In a foreword, the author explains that he ripped the whole story off of a pair of sisters in upstate New York in the 1920s and apologizes that the story inspired him, but that he didn't quite do it justice and he begs the reader to forgive him. I really can't appreciate an author with no confidence.

The story is weak, and it is VERY based on the Fox sisters and relies on boredom and unexplained coincidence (a ridiculous ankle bone trick) as the crux of the plot. Weak!