Weekend Pick for October 4, 2024

Weekend Pick for October 4, 2024
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Welcome to the fall, Book Friends! October is here. I am sure you notice it driving to work or walking in your neighborhood. Halloween is in the air. Katherine Higgs-Coulthard eases us into the spooky season with her first novel suggestion. It is She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran.

Let me introduce our guest contributor for the month of October. 
Kat started writing as a child and uses her positions as an author and professor at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, to serve as an advocate for creativity and effective writing instruction in schools. In 2008, she opened Michiana Writers' Center as a way to support writers of all ages through classes and workshops in the South Bend/Mishawaka area. In 2013, Kat founded the Get Inked Teen Writing Conference at Saint Mary’s College, which brings together young writers and published authors. Her YA novel, Junkyard Dogs, made the shortlist for the Indiana Author Awards.

Katherine Higgs-Coulthard

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

​If you're looking for something to ease you into the spooky October vibe, She Is a Haunting is just the book! I love stories where the setting is so germain to the plot that it feels like another character. Tran takes that a whole level up in her work, by placing her characters within a house that actively responds to its inhabitants due to its tragic colonial history. A quick peek at the plot: Jade's father has agreed to pay for her college, but only if she spends the summer with him in Vietnam where he is renovating a historic house. Jade quickly learns that the house is not going to passively accept her presence. 

Reminiscent of The Haunting of Hill House, She Is a Haunting delivers just enough creepy body horror to get under your skin. If you are in a mood for a little scare, dive into this novel!

Happy reading,
​Kat