![]() ![]() We’re introduced to this little kid who is going to participate in a penpal project at school. Caution: will in all likelihood cause the reader’s skin to crawl, more commonly known as the “heebie-jeebies.” In truth this book should come with a warning. Penpal succeeded in a way that a lot of the more horror-inclined books that I read don’t. Was it a coincidence that the lights in my house flickered while I was reading this book? Maybe, but that didn’t make the chills running down my spine any less real. “…there was something about the way the trees twisted together in the dim light of the moon, as the wind rustled and whistled through them, that made it feel like a wholly different place than it was during the day.” Dathan Auerbach’s Penpal documents one man’s journey as he looks back at his past and tries to make sense of the strange events that took place following an innocent school project. ![]() No one can rightly say they remember everything from their earlier years and in many cases it’s hard to tell if we’ve altered the truth to fit the kind of childhood we wish we had. When you look back on your childhood, all that seems left are little fragments of memories. ![]()
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