Donna Montalbano
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The House on Benefit Street
Type of edition: Trade
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Angie Russo has lost her husband to cancer. She needs to sell her suburban home. Friends and family expect her to bury herself alive in some cinderblock condo development...instead, Angie buys an old house on picturesque Benefit Street, Providence's Mile of History, haunt of Lovecraft and Poe. Before long, things start going bump in the night. Angie hears voices. She sees her dead husband at the bedroom door. Is her new home haunted by ghosts from her own past, or by past inhabitants of The House on Benefit Street? Set on one of America's most historic and elegant colonial thoroughfares, this novel is chockfull of local references that will delight Rhodies and inspire many spontaneous visits to New England's Renaissance City. Readers will certainly relish the thrills and chills of the haunted house on Benefit Street, but may find themselves more intrigued by Angie herself...a representative of the "older woman" demographic which has become nearly invisible in today's youth-obsessed society. Angie's heroic (and occasionally hilarious) passage from grief to hope makes The House on Benefit Street a truly satisfying read.
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