Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

Shirley J.                     Adult Fiction                      Ghosts, Mechanical Wizardry, a dying town

Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks     304 pages        

A very deep and often tragically sad story about a dying town whose one factory is about to go.   Ghosts of former residents haunt the place to out numbering the human inhabitants left.   So many ghosts they not only haunt people but also things.  One such ghost who was good in life at tinkering with mechanical things possesses a young boy creating amazing contraptions with his human hands accrediting the boy who was highly intelligent and insightful already with skills way beyond his own capability and understanding.   The boy/ghost creates a robot that helps around the house, fixes the decrepit car his mother and sister drive, then a sinister twist occurs when in trying to save the town and the factory he creates something then somethings of Orwellian lore.  The town becomes divided in their prejudice against this new invention, the boy's mother kicks their father out of the house and he becomes the creepy weird guy lurking around with crazy eyes in the night, his sister tries to find a connection with a fellow like minded guy only to find her world in more turmoil than ever.   It is a bizarre but really excellent story you will want to read cover to cover.   It is sad and spooky so I recommend this one to mature teens on up it might be a little hard to take for the younger set.