![]() ![]() Lily knows that sometimes just being there and not saying a thing is the best thing you can do for a friend. Since Jake’s dad left, he’s developed a little bit of OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) and he has special rituals such as tapping certain places on the wall on the way up the stairs or pressing his thumb to each of his fingers repeatedly. They actually meet to read them in a tomb in the cemetery. Lily Carker, (whose grandfather Abraham (or “Gnarly”) runs the cemetery,) and Jacob Doolitle, (who comes from a wealthy family, but also from a long line of absentee fathers,) become unlikely friends when they discover a mutual interest in scary stories. The name alone reminds me of Ray Bradbury’s October Country or Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October. ![]()
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