Today’s Riot Rundown is sponsored by Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson.
What happens at a mysterious boarding school called The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children? Children use their speech “impediments” to commune with the dead, of course. Shelley Jackson’s thrilling and innovative novel Riddance follows eleven-year-old Jane Grandison as she navigates her new life at the institution—and her newfound ability to visit the world of the dead— with the help of the brilliant (but possibly murderous) Headmistress Sybil Joines. Riddance is a richly detailed illustrated and “researched” novel in the vein of Lincoln in the Bardo. Read more here [link to: http://bit.ly/2QUnRR2].