I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted is a memoir about growing up in a haunted house, and an exploration of what it means to be “haunted.” It was published by Doubleday/Broadway in January 2008, and was released as a paperback in October of that same year.
In this follow-up to She’s Not There, I tried to show how love, forgiveness, and humor help us find peace with our ghosts, with outrloved ones, and with the uncanny boundaries, real and imagined, between men and women.
A few links concerning this title are posted below.
Growing Up Haunted
You have to check this out. This is a video tour of the “Coffin House,” the allegedly haunted mansion in Pennsylvania in which I grew up.
Chapter 1, “Dirty Deeds”. An Excerpt from I’m Looking Through You This is the first chapter of ILTY, presented in pdf form.
Bonus Chapter: THE MISSING PERSON. This is a chapter deleted from the final text but available for reading online as an extra feature of the site. (pdf). The story begins with the story of Li Fung, which I told as part of a story with the same name that appears in the anthology, How Beautiful the Ordinary, but the heart of this story, concerning my friendship with a guy named TJ, is different from that one.
Press Clips, Reviews & Interviews This page contains a very large number of interviews I did in connection with ILTY, plus a good cross-section of the reviews.
Purchase e-book from Diesel e-books ILTY was the first book of mine available as an audio book, and I was asked to do the recording my own self. It took forever to make this recording, but the nice thing is that readers who purchase the audio book can hear me actually doing the voices of the various characters, which is probably the scariest thing imaginable.