Mr. Splitfoot

4 of 10
Mr. Splitfoot
336 pages; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Turn to any page of this one-of-a-kind Gothic fiction about motherhood and hauntings—literal and metaphorical—and you'll come upon moments of startling originality, like this description of an abandoned house: "as if someone ate breakfast and disappeared. The Rapture happened after orange juice." Hunt is scary good.