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Title: "You take a hard line, you live a hard life."
Review: Clay's father has told him this truth a number of times. And the advise has been echoed to him through the course of the book. Clay is 11 the day his father Michael dies, but it takes him longer to grow into his true understanding of what he has lost and what he has not lost.His father's brother Gabe has returned from New York City and tells him "his family is full of secrets, full of ghosts." through this wonderful novel, Clay follows the trail of those secrets. The members of his family indeed do haunt. At one point, he had even been convinced that his secret, insomniac mother was a vampire of sorts. Thes people are multi-dimensional and fully engrossing. The characters and the plot interweave to serve each other.We the reader learn, as Clay does, that "forgiveness is just saying, that was the way it was, and letting it go.". The truth of this is the is taught in the story of this wonderful book.
