5/22/2023 0 Comments Rooms by lauren oliver![]() ![]() But I did do a lot of research about who they were and what kind of life they lived. My ghosts have real personalities and narratives and patterns of speech. My ghosts are unlike other apparitions or spirits that one would typically find in Gothic literature or “Ghost Hunters”-type TV shows. What sort of research did you do on ghosts or haunted houses for this book? There’s a whole literary tradition of dysfunctional families that return home and collide. I also love stories of dysfunctional families that can be in a home - This Is Where I Leave You being a recent example, which is about family that returned home to observe shiva, but also The Corrections. Part of the idea for Rooms was I wanted to just be able to tell a house’s story-all of the dramas and tensions and romances that have played out within one home-and be able to tell it in a way where you’re collapsing the timeframe and telling multiple stories that have existed at different points. I grew up in an old house, and when I grew up there, I was always thinking about the people who must have lived there before and the people who lived there afterwards. In an elegant blend of real and supernatural worlds, the story takes place entirely within the walls of one house, moving from room to room and unfolding through the voices of seven different narrators-including two ghosts. Her first novel for adults, Rooms, is a ghost story, but is completely unlike any we’ve read before. ![]() Lauren Oliver is well known and quite beloved for her young adult and children’s books. ![]()
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