On Meghan McCarron’s “Swift, Brutal Retaliation”

Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a ghost story, but done as a realistic family drama. Think Cheever or Franzen rather than Shirley Jackson or Stephen King. The ‘horror’ is the disintraging relationships. The emotional brutality and unrelenting prose probably what placed this story on this year’s […]