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'Saturday Night Ghost Club' Celebrates The Wonders And Horrors Of Being A Kid

Craig Davidson's new novel follows a group of kids through a strange summer of hunting urban legends — it's a coming-of-age story that's also about loss, particularly what we lose when we grow up.
Source: Penguin Books

"Brain matter will squeeze through a keyhole," says Jake Baker, the main character of Craig Davidson's new novel . Jake should know. He's a neurosurgeon, and he spends his days cutting into people's brains, hoping to heal the mysterious maladies that afflict the human brain. is his story, although most of it takes place in the past — one summer during the '80s, in which he turned 12. He grew up in

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