A Sudden Light by Garth Stein is set in the Pacific Northwest. Fourteen year old Trevor and his father travel to his father's childhood home to try to persuade his aging grandfather to sell the house and move into a retirement home, which would solve their financial problems, but of course things are a bit more complicated than that.
What ensues is a journey into generations of the families past, some appearing as ghosts to tell their stories to Trevor about the land and people they loved. Nothing is as it seems, including Trevor's Aunt.
A well written, multi-generational coming of age tale full of just the right amount of magic. I didn't like the ending, but overall it was a good read.
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