Charles Forsman: Ex Utero, Gebunden

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Josh Mort is a 16-year-old nerd living in a small American town in the early 1990s. He lives with his checked-out father and his younger brother, Pete. He has a best friend, Greta, who he secretly loves, and a serial bully, Corey, who won't leave him alone. His pregnant mother, Lindsay, died the year before, officially in a car accident, but her past suggests otherwise.

One day, while trying to bury his cat (run over by his drunken father) in the woods behind the local cemetery, Josh discovers a mysterious old book, which turns out to be a book of black magic containing various spells, including one on how to revive the dead...

Ex Utero , dripping in grunge atmosphere, mines familiar thematic territory for fans of Forsman's previous bestsellers: raw adolescence, young romance, slowly building tension, and those small cracks in reality that make everything increasingly unsettling--all sprinkled with a perfectly controlled touch of the fantastic. Forsman is a master of his craft, and he proves it a little more with each new book. Ex Utero is Forsman's most accomplished work to date, a horror story that masks an exploration of personal family trauma and how to reconcile one's complex relationship with a parent after their death.