This book is about a girl who can make a strange clicking sound with her ankle and pretends she is speaking to ghosts. While that is kind of the main story arc, it is also about her messed up family through the generations starting with her great-grandfather and down to her parents. Mostly they are a bunch of deeply unhappy people.

While I generally don't like to read about unhappy people, these ones didn't bother me too much. Maybe because we only check in with them and their lives in snippits so you don't get too bogged down in their issues or because it's the kind of unhappiness that is simmering below the surface behind a happy face. Either way, I found myself liking the people in spite of it and enjoying the book

The pace of the book is not fast and at times the descriptions seemed a bit much but it got better as the book went on. Either because I got used to the pace or because it picked up, I don't know.