Stewart O’Nan was born and lives with his family in Pittsburgh. Stewart O’Nan’s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, and Emily, Alone. Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists.
The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan
In our Edge of the Universe column, we review mainstream authors that incorporate elements of speculative fiction into their “literary” work. However you want to label them, we hope you’ll enjoy discussing these books with us.
To call The Night Country a ghost story or horror story does a disservice to both the author and the work. It's like calling The Odyssey a ghost story because Odysseus speaks to the shades. Yes, there are ghosts, but The Night Country aims to be far more than ghost story, and for the most part succeeds admirably and movingly.
The ghosts are the novel's narrators — a group of teens killed in a single-car crash exactly one year ago this... Read More
