![]() David Olson, a young boy living in the small, isolated town of Mill Grove, Pa., sneaks out of his house in the middle of the night on a hazardous mission that he alone can undertake: to prevent a demonic entity known as "the hissing lady" from entering our world, and to save the life of his beloved older brother, Ambrose. That story begins with an enigmatic prologue that takes place 50 years before the primary narrative begins. Perhaps its most impressive aspect is the confidence with which Chbosky deploys the more fantastical elements of his complex narrative, using the baroque, hallucinatory imagery of horror fiction to tell a very human story with universal implications. ![]() ![]() Beyond that, Imaginary Friend is a radical departure on virtually every level. To be sure, the underlying sensibility that characterized Wallflower is present in the new book, particularly in its empathetic portraits of people struggling to recover from personal tragedy. ![]() Imaginary Friend is one of the most ambitious horror novels in recent years. ![]()
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