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How to Make Friends with Demons, by Graham Joyce, Night Shade Books, 2008, $24.95.
This new novel from Graham Joyce is pure genius. It's one of those books that can be read as a fascinating character study in which some of the participants have hyperactive imaginations, or as a supernatural novel, but either way, it's a terrific read. That's because Joyce is one of those writers who totally inhabits his characters, which makes us believe in them completely. I can't explain it, exactly. It's not just the details, or even how the story is laid out, so much as the voice itself - especially when...