Ben Dolnick

Belletrist Book of the Month "[An] elegant, eerie new novel . . . Powerful." —The Washington Post A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum. When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, a museum dedicated to an obscure nineteenth-century philosopher, and she and Nick swiftly move into their new home. The town’s remoteness, the speed with which Hannah is offered the job, and the lack of museum visitors barely a blip in their consideration. At first, life in this old, creaky house feels cozy—they speak in Masterpiece Theater accents and take bottles of wine to the swimming hole. But as summer turns to fall, Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping and she hears whispers in the night. One morning, Nick wakes up to find Hannah gone. In his frantic search for her, Nick will discover the hidden legacy of Wright House: a man driven wild with grief, and a spirit aching for home.

A Novel

The Ghost Notebooks

Estranged from a best friend after a shadowy incident ten years earlier, lonely tutor Adam longs for a more meaningful life before an entreaty from his best friend's mother draws him back to his past world, where he embarks on a hallucinatory quest for redemption. By the author of Zoology.

At the Bottom of Everything

After flunking out of college, Henry Elinsky moves to New York and takes a job at a children's zoo, enjoying his new role as a wage-earner and non-failure, until he falls for beautiful, wise-cracking Margaret, his family begins to crumble around him, and he makes a terrible mistake at his job, in a debut coming-of-age novel. Original.

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