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A Sudden Light
A Sudden Light
Author: Garth Stein
When a boy tries to save his parents’ marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain. — In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780857205766
ISBN-10: 0857205765
Publication Date: 9/30/2014
Pages: 416
Edition: 1St Edition
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Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The Riddell house is a wooden mansion in Seattle
overlooking Seattle's Puget Sound to which Trevor, 14, accompanied his father, Jones. His parents are separated, have no money and plan to sell the place. The two will meet Serena, Trevor's aunt, to move Grandpa Samuel to assisted care and sell the estate.

Constructed from giant trees with attached bark, the house is unforgettable because of its size. Trevor recalls first seeing it the summer of 1990. He was thirteen. Now he explores the estate discovering secrets about the family past, meeting spirits/ghosts, uncovering lies and deception. He learns about those who inhabited the house and an earlier owner who dictated that the estate be returned to forest. Grandpa Samuel agrees. Trevor only wants his family to be whole again.

The stage is set for family drama told through the eyes of the youngest member, Trevor. The characters have wonderfully unique personalities with their own agendas. Trevor has conversations with a ghost and reads old diaries written by Elijah's son, Ben. It's a wonderful well told story by a storyteller who weaves the best of tales.


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