The summer Jake turned twelve, Calvin invited him to join the “Saturday Night Ghost Club”–a seemingly light-hearted project to investigate some of Cataract City’s more macabre urban myths. Cataract City–a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place–one of Jake’s closest confidantes was his uncle Calvin, a sweet but eccentric misfit enamored of occult artefacts and outlandish conspiracy theories. When growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls, a.k.a. And memory, Jake knows well, can be a tricky thing. When neurosurgeon Jake Baker operates, he knows he’s handling more than a patient’s delicate brain tissue–he’s altering their seat of consciousness, their golden vault of memory. An infectious and heartbreaking novel from “one of this country’s great kinetic writers” ( Globe and Mail)–Craig Davidson’s first new literary fiction since his bestselling, Giller-shortlisted Cataract City
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