Lessons on life, learned by a ghost

Male Caldera is an ancient Rockstar, a kind of wild revealing and the black sheep of his very Catholic family (what is it like?). And as you can guess of the title, she is also very dead.

Overall, she agrees with that, at least as much as we can be. It focuses mainly on the determination where it is. She feels that she is in “The Terminal”, a kind of space between the two between the floor and the ground floor. And she would agree to stay here and do the dead was not for one person: her sister Cris. Instead is delighted with guilt for having left him behind to face his death and their religious fanatics of a mother, especially because her death is called suicide when it was really – badly thinks? – An accident.

She watches Cris pass by the movements: choose the clothes in which she will be buried, organizing the funeral, searching in her apartment as if she were looking for proof that she was not died by suicide, or perhaps something that confirms that she did it. So, bad has what is called the unfinished affairs of a ghost, except that she cannot understand how to communicate with her sister.

Meanwhile, she meets other ghosts who somehow show her the ropes of the beyond, the ghosts that party in this haunted manor called the hideout and repeatedly reminds us that contact with the living is prohibited. There are rules! But badly is determined to reach her sister and enlist the help of a medium named Ren to do so. It is reluctant to help but gives in, and they begin to develop a plan so that badly communicates with the cries beyond the grave. But also … they start to wonder what could have been if they had only met while bad was still alive.

This book is moving, funny, absurd, tearing, then still funny (“Do not look in this drawer!” – Too real). Evil is imperfect and a little thorny, but the most relatable when it is vulnerable enough to admit that she feel. The story explores the particular type of pain that we feel when we have to cry someone who we had more to say, more to learn, someone with whom we have not resolved problems and more love. It is eccentric and Quippy and not the downer that you could expect that a book on death be. In fact, I found comforting to spend time with it. It reminded me that there was a healing to have even loss.

TW: dependence, alcohol abuse, suicide, mental illness