January 14, 2007
The Dead Fathers Club
In British author Haig's ingenious reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet, an 11-year-old English boy seeks revenge for his father's murder. Visited by the ghost of his dead father, Philip Noble is shocked to learn that his father's death in a car accident was actually orchestrated by his Uncle Alan. Uncle Alan, it seems, has designs both on the family-owned pub and Philip's mother. His father's ghost wants vengeance, and he wants Philip to be the one who carries it out. A wholly original and mesmerizing work of fiction.
