![]() ![]() Reiss slips between past and present with a callous alacrity that is wondrously effective readers will buy into the unfolding revelations while gaining a true sense of Molly's tenuous grip on events. At the core of the tale is a nicely realized romance between Molly and a boy who shares her visitations. ![]() When she goes to stay with her newly remarried father in an old house in Maine, the fragments and trepidations begin to fall alarmingly into place: Molly sees the world through the eyes of Clementine, niece of a family who lived in the house 80 years before, who drowned with a local boy while running away. The old song replays in Molly's head, cropping up too often for coincidence-``You are lost and gone forever,/Dreadful sorry, Clementine.'' Meanwhile, fearful dreams seize her at night and, after she nearly drowns, begin to haunt her as visions by day. ![]()
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