"Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time." "Hauntings are contagious." "Too often, people make the mistake of trying to use their art to capture a ghost, but only end up spreading their haunting to countless other people." India Morgan Phelps (Imp) "inherited the Phelps Family Curse." She's insane or more correctly suffers from schizophrenia, as did her mother and grandmother. She viewed Phillip George Salton's painting The Drowning Girl when she was eleven. She immediately felt drawn into the painting. When she "picks up" Eva Canning years later, she believes the two are immediately related - the girl in the painting and Eva. She writes this memoir in response to a haunting within a haunting. On the advice of her suicide mother, she began a written record of her haunting. Although this book received rave reviews, I found it a bit tedious. Imp did not tell her story as a linear narrative, but with numerous repetitions and convolutions making it somewhat confusing. The many literary and artistic references, including numerous to Red Riding Hood, while making for interesting, challenging reading also tended to weigh down the plot pace.
"Nobody reads by accident."
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