I've read up to p 192 now and the book has taken a turn for the worst. The book has 3 different parts, the first part was setting the scene of the book. We meet the characters and find out that Ross Wakeman, the main character, has met a ghost named Lia. He didnt know that she was a ghost though because he could hold her hand and kiss her. He finds out she's dead by tripping over her gravestone.
The second part is when it gets weird because it goes back to 1932 to the time when Lia was still alive. She was also 6 months pregnant. We find out that her husband is into eugenics and is trying to rid the "feebleminded" of their right to procreate. He's working on a sterilization law to sterilize all the gypsys, aka Abenaki Indians. Lia finds out that her real father is a gypsy and she starts to spend time with him. Throughout part 2 Lia tries to kill herself many times because she knows her husband doesnt love her for herself but because she's Henry Perkins daughter, a famous scientist working in eugenics too.
It's a really odd book. I really hated part 2 because it was so stupid. I dont want to read about someone trying to kill themselves every other day.. it gets old. Right now its back to present day and their trying to figure out who really killed Lia and her baby. The police report says that her baby was born a stillborn but in part 2 Lia finds her baby in the icehouse so her husband killed the baby because it looked like a gypsy. He's a really weird man.
I would like the book a lot more if part 2 wasn't so repetitive and annoying.
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