Jake Williams

So it's set in East Village, New York in the summer of 1984.

That sounds really sad.

It is.

Yeah, it sounds devastating.

It is sad at times, but it's also a real caper of a book.

So there is this kind of mystery that the ghosts are disappearing.

Renata's been able to see them her whole life.

And she comes up against this mysterious sort of police-style force that has begun ridding the neighbourhood of the paranormal.

At first, she's sure that they're scam artists, but when it becomes clear they're actually trapping ghosts and preventing them from moving on, Renata is determined to fight back against the erasure of her friends' memories and the sanitising of her beloved New York.

So I would describe it as It's a Sin meets Ghostbusters.

The combo you didn't know you needed.

It's so brilliant on friendship because...

you have renata like talking so it's like do you see them together or if you only see them after he has mark is very present like throughout the book he feels more more present than he is because he's he is dead for if if not the whole book than the vast majority of the book and she's grieving and she's just searching for him constantly but because of that she's always like trying to catch sight of him and that feels so relatable like if you've lost a friend

that feeling of trying to catch a glimpse of them or you think like you see someone walking your head but with Renata because she's always been able to see ghosts like that really could be true so Mark is completely present I think almost the entire cast of characters are queer and that kind of concept of found family and friendship and especially as they are in the midst of the AIDS crisis at that time and in that place

And so it's so full of love and also kind of fear of loss.

The ending of this, I will not, I absolutely will not spoil it, but the ending is so beautiful.

I think you've said it before.

I'm going to say perfect ending.

Perfect ending.

I really felt like that is exactly how this book needed to end.