The spoil : a novel / Maile Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Maile, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demonology--Fiction.

Demonology.

Neurodivergent people--Fiction.

Neurodivergent people.

Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Fiction.

Alzheimer's disease.

Las Vegas (Nev.)--Fiction.

Las Vegas (Nev.).

Genre:

Horror fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

537 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2026]

Summary:

"In a rambling split-level house on the outskirts of Tacoma in the 1970s, a young girl is preoccupied by the anomalous phenomena she reads about in magazines: alien visitations, ESP, pyramid power, the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile, she and her stepbrother, thrown uneasily together by disaster and divorce, grow increasingly convinced that a malevolent presence resides in their house, and they develop elaborate strategies to live with it. Years later, Mandy is living in Las Vegas in a modern townhouse caring for her mother who is in a terminal decline from Alzheimer's. She works for a real estate company but struggles to focus on her tasks. She takes medication to manage her ADHD, which has her zagging between distraction and obsession, always halfway through some home renovation project. Then, while digging through a box of her mother's things hoarded in her garage, she sets something loose. Something old and baleful: a demon that soon possesses one of her neighbors, an affable semiretired house flipper and handyman named TK. What follows is a gripping and often terrifying story of familial grief in which the past is both elusive and paralyzing, and questions of science and spirit become urgent"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Chapman, Maile Spoil

ISBN:

9781644453797

1644453797

OCLC:

1513896063