Happy People Don't Live Here
Suffused with humor and characters that delight, Sparks’ tale is sensitive to the protagonists’ varied frustrations and hesitations, ghostly or otherwise.
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For anyone who has ever wished they made Nancy Drew novels for grown-ups ... Like, say, Tim Burton or Neil Gaiman, Sparks works within a highly stylized mix of quirky and eerie—but from within her own idiosyncratic vision, she celebrates the power and strangeness of weird women and girls.
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Playful ... The zaniness can sometimes feel forced, and a few of the novel’s many threads are left dangling at the end, but beneath the spunky girl detective plot is a finely crafted novel about fraught relationships, both between a mother and daughter and between the living and the dead. It’s a cozy supernatural delight.
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