What I’m Reading: “Sparrow Hill Road” by Seanan McGuire

Genre: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy

Story Form: Novel; 302 pp

First Published: 2014; Revised 2018 — DAW Books

I hesitated over the genre for Seanan McGuire’s Sparrow Hill Road because primarily it’s a ghost story—or a series of linked ghost stories, in fact, tied together into novel form. Yet the story of restless ghost, Rose Marshall, is definitely set in the contemporary urban America—albeit from the 1950s to the present—of highways, truck stops, and diners. So in that sense it’s Urban Fantasy.

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