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Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary is what happens when grief turns into bargaining and nobody's there to say no. Sometimes dead is better. 🐈⬛
Who it's for
Louis Creed is a doctor who believes he understands death, and the book takes that confidence apart piece by piece.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Stephen King's horror novel follows Louis Creed, a physician who moves his family to a house near Ludlow, Maine, to run the University of Maine's campus health service. Their elderly neighbor Jud Crandall shows them a pet cemetery in the woods, and when the family cat is killed on the highway, Jud takes Louis beyond it to an old burial ground with the power to bring the dead back, changed.
Where to find it
In print; widely available from libraries (Libby/Hoopla), and as an audiobook. Still in copyright.
Before you start
Heads up: A young child's death and graphic violence.
Age: Adult (18+)
Silence will carry your voice like the nest that holds the sleeping birds.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 155
