Devil House

this is the kind of book that takes itself and puts itself back together again. it's full of john darnielle's typical preoccupation with small towns, houses, people, & the small details of people's lives. the kind of writing you can smell the asphalt from. i listened to the audiobook, so i got to hear john darnielle read his work out loud, which of course suits the text perfectly.

Darnielle has a very empathic pen and an amazing sense of story and use of words, without getting bloated or to ethereal. The character are heartbreaking lovely and the story is a fair look into the true crime obsession of today.