Now J.J. refuses to remember Ben's death. He wants it to stay in a Forgetting Place . . . until he begins getting weird messages on the computer he shared with Benùmessages that seem to want him to do something. Then J.J. discovers Ben had been writing to their Aunt Casey, sharing things with her that he didn't share with J.J.
J.J. needs to find out what Ben wrote to their aunt. So he goes to California, to Burbank, to see Aunt Casey, who is a spiritualist. People come to her when they want to talk to the dead. And she's got unusual friends, like Guru Jack, who runs a bookstore and talks out-of-date Valley-speak, and has the key to one of Ben's messages. J.J. also makes a new friend of his own, a girl who calls herself Zombie and who's got some Forgetting Places of her own.
"Such a rich novel, it offers so much to the reader that it's hard to know where to begin to discuss it." ùBaltimore Sun
"Somtow manages to combine child abuse and fantasy in such a way as to provide an avenue of healing . . . a whopping good story."ùJane Yolen