Ghosts of Harvard : a novel / Francesca Serritella.
"Cadence "Cady" Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone around him. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady's life, and while her choice to walk the same path threatens to break her family apart, she is driven to know why Eric killed himself. As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure that comes with being at Harvard, she begins to investigate her brother's life on campus. What was it that caused Eric to spiral into an irretrievable madness--the paranoia, the delusions, the illusory enemies--after he had been doing so well? Soon, her prying turns up clues that grow increasingly sinister. And then, as her suspicions mount, Cady begins to hear voices herself: three ghosts that walked the hallowed halls of Harvard, each from a different era of American history. That's when the panic sets in. Does she share Eric's illness, or are these voices real? And if she listens to these ghosts, will they lead to her brother--and the truth--or will they lead her down a path of her own destruction?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525510369 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 469 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Harvard University > Fiction. Brothers and sisters > Fiction. Paranoid schizophrenics > Fiction. College students > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Ghost stories. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"Cadence "Cady" Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone around him. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady's life, and while her choice to walk the same path threatens tobreak her family apart, she is driven to know why Eric killed himself. As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure that comes with being at Harvard, she begins to investigate her brother's life on campus. What was it that caused Eric to spiral into an irretrievable madness--the paranoia, the delusions, the illusory enemies--after he had been doing so well? Soon, her prying turns up clues that grow increasingly sinister. And then, as her suspicions mount, Cady begins to hear voices herself: three ghoststhat walked the hallowed halls of Harvard, each from a different era of American history. That's when the panic sets in. Does she share Eric's illness, or are these voices real? And if she listens to these ghosts, will they lead to her brother--and the truth--or will they lead her down a path of her own destruction?"-- - Baker & Taylor
Defying her family to investigate the suspicious suicide of her schizophrenic genius brother, a Harvard freshman begins to hear the voices of three paranoia-inducing ghosts from different eras in American history. A first novel. - Random House, Inc.
TEEN VOGUE BOOK CLUB PICK â¢Â A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brotherâs suicide. Then she starts hearing voices.
âA rich, intricately plotted thriller . . . Serritella, who is a Harvard grad herself, writes about the campus with an insiderâs savvy.ââMaureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
âEvery time I thought I knew where Ghosts of Harvard was heading, I turned out to be wrong. Part mystery, part ghost story, part psychological thriller, this novel is all entertainment.ââ#1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult
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Cadence Archer arrives on Harvardâs campus desperate to understand why her brother, Eric, a genius who developed paranoid schizophrenia took his own life there the year before. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cadyâs life, and while her decision to follow in her brotherâs footsteps threatens to break her family apart, she is haunted by questions of what she might have missed. And thereâs only one place to find answers.
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As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure at Harvard, she investigates her brotherâs final year, armed only with a blue notebook of Ericâs cryptic scribblings. She knew he had been struggling with paranoia, delusions, and illusory enemiesâbut what tipped him over the edge? Voices fill her head, seemingly belonging to three ghosts who passed through the university in life, or death, and whose voices, dreams, and terrors still echo the halls. Among them is a person whose name has been buried for centuries, and another whose name mankind will never forget.
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Does she share Ericâs illness, or is she tapping into something else? Cady doesnât know how or why these ghosts are contacting her, but as she is drawn deeper into their worlds, she believes theyâre moving her closer to the truth about Eric, even as keeping them secret isolates her further. Will listening to these voices lead her to the one voice she cravesâher brotherâsâor will she follow them down a path to her own destruction?