Uncle C, as Jake calls Calvin, is something else entirely. Jake is a stereotypically nerdy kid: overweight, socially awkward, and prone to spending his time with his nose in a book. Because as Jake tells it, he spent that summer with his eccentric Uncle Calvin and a handful of friends, practicing rituals and hunting ghosts and monsters. He grew up in Niagara Falls, and the town's mist-shrouded natural monument serves as a dramatic backdrop to something bordering on the supernatural. The Saturday Night Ghost Club is his story, although most of it takes place in the past - one summer during the '80s, in which he turned 12. He's a neurosurgeon, and he spends his days cutting into people's brains, hoping to heal the mysterious maladies that afflict the human brain. "Brain matter will squeeze through a keyhole," says Jake Baker, the main character of Craig Davidson's new novel The Saturday Night Ghost Club. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Saturday Night Ghost Club Author Craig Davidson
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