SuitabookGhost train
Jess Mowry
- Reading
- Read alongside a calm check-in after the murder scenes or supernatural confrontations. Pause to clarify the shifting relationship between the living, ghosts and the 1943 events as the mystery develops.
- Themes
- Living with the past: A murder from 1943 is reenacted nightly, connecting a historical Oakland event with Remi and Niya’s present-day investigation. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Migration and inequality: Remi arrives from Port-au-Prince with his family after living in poverty and encounters unfamiliar material conditions in West Oakland. The premise foregrounds economic difference and relocation, but it does not establish whether the book critiques, explains or resolves these pressures.
- Friendship and investigation: Remi and Niya work together to assemble clues about the crime, the missing boy and the suspected burial. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to fear and suspense.