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The Agony House
by Cherie Priest
This was a pretty neat book. I have it on my graphic novel shelf because part of the book follows a comic the MC finds in the attic of the new (run down) house she and her parents move into. It's a great ghost story, your classic haunting with angry ghosts and good ghosts. A mansion in dire need of repair that other occupants were too scared to continue living there. Perfect setting in hot, humid New Orleans and a small, struggling town where everybody knows everybody. Except for the history of the house, and where the original owner disappeared to. Or who the famous person who died there was. A great read for younger teens and up, it has some great themes of feminism, comic censorship and publication, step-families, gentrification, and POC living in struggling neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. It really is a unique spin on a classic haunted house!