The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin David Yaffe didn't finish his senior year of high school because he was on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Emily. Now he's moved in to the apartment above his aunt and uncle to be away from his fame and to repeat his final year of high school at the school his cousin Kathy went to. He is, in fact, living in the apartment Kathy lived in. But Kathy is dead. She is supposed to have committed suicide in this same apartment, while her younger sister Lily was there. Lily, maybe because of her sister's suicide, is now a total terror, a scary not-child. David can hear Kathy's ghost whispering to him. Kathy says,
save Lily, save Lily, save Lily. But David doesn't know how to save Lily; he's not sure he knows how to save himself.
This book unfolds slowly, revealing the distant past as it isrelevant to the present. David and Lily and her parents are all struggling with their own demons. Most of the characters in this book are shown as denying something important about their own lives.
Question: When is it better to remember a painful past than to forget it? Does remembering the past help it to heal?
Happy reading.
