![]() ![]() Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed. A book on demon possession suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. ![]() The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. In Come Closer, readers are taken into the first-person perspective of Amanda, a young woman who slowly begins to realize she’s possessed by a demon. Since I’ve read the classics with those tropes, the interwebs were helpful in directing me to this little 2006 gem by Sara Gran. Gran confirms that a story can be horrifying and funny at the same time. Scary: Demonic possession and creepy kids. One would not think that the descent into madness could be funny, but Ms. Amanda?a successful architect in a happy marriage?finds her life going off kilter by degrees. Surprisingly difficult to find, Come Closer is delightfully creepy, engaging, extremely well-written, and surprisingly humorous. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. ![]() A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |