On August 18, 1975, Lavar Carter set fire to his house on Keer Avenue and killed his family. His daughter Serena survived long enough to call out from a closet. She did not survive the night.
Fifty years later, Jaziel Artis moves into a Victorian on Keer Avenue - the same block, the same bones - and the dreams begin. A haunting that isn't about fear. A ghost that isn't after revenge. DREAM GIRL is a Newark novel about what the dead leave behind when all they ever wanted was the truth. For readers of The Haunting of Hill House, The Intuitionist (Colson Whitehead), and A Little Life.