Happy People Don't Live Here: A Novel

In this darkly funny gothic tale, a reclusive mother and her saturnine daughter move into a haunted building brimming with eccentrics-and secrets.

Just past the edge of summer, Alice and her daughter, Fern, arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments-a former sanatorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar neighbors and a smattering of ghosts. Among the living: the Mermaid Lady, who performs in a nightclub fish tank; the building's handyperson, moonlighting as a medium; and an awkwardly charming profe...