tonauac 's review for:

A Sudden Light by Garth Stein

3.0

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A very complex story, a little longer than necessary or what I expected. A discovery of the family legacy and a property with very particular characteristics. It is also a story in which the past joins the present making some supernatural events.

(…) In flashes, I see the rest.
Ben carries Harry’s corpse to the barn and lays him out on the workbench. The barn is full of woodworking tools used by the artisans who built Riddell House, and Ben sets to work building a coffin. All night he builds, and in the morning he is finished. He places Harry in the coffin and uses a two-wheeled cart to haul the coffin up Observatory Hill, where he digs a grave. Before he is finished, the rain comes. The hole begins to fill with water and mud, but Ben perseveres, because nothing will stop him. I wish I could help him, as he fights against the crumbling walls of the earth, frustrated, distraught. And somehow, I know that I can. I believe that I can. And so I take up a shovel, climb into the hole, and join him.
Ben stops digging momentarily, looks up at me, nods in acknowledgment.
Together, we dig Harry’s grave. (…)”