My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel

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If you're looking for a good summer book, something for the beach or the back porch that won't insult your intelligence, one that's tense and sometimes scary and sometimes funny, with characters you may even come to like and admire as they come of age, keep My Best Friend's Exorcism in mind.

Adolescence is a complicated time, and some really bright people think that when the adult emerges, it’s like you’re being taken over by a different person. Sometimes, I read a book and I think to myself, "I can see how this wouldn't work for everyone, but wow, does it work for me! TakeThe Exorcist, add some hair spray and wine coolers, and enroll it in high school in 1988 that'll give youMy Best Friend's Exorcism Campy.It’s not forced and all flows naturally into the narrative setting the scene and tone instantly transporting you back. My Best Friend's Exorcism received reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, [2] the latter of which stated, "Certainly not for all readers, but anyone interested in seeing William Peter Blatty's infamous The Exorcist (1971) by way of Heathers shouldn't miss it.

One night, out in a cabin by the lake, something happens to Gretchen that cannot be explained and she became someone Abby doesn't recognise. The novel then goes through their relationship from that point on, which includes singing into hairbrushes to Madonna, getting their hair braided in Jamaica, and dealing with the awkwardness of growing up, whether it is bad acne or overprotective parents. S. means one thing before you read the book and one much more specific thing after, and is the part that made me get as close to emotional as i can when reading.If you lived through the 1980s then you'll probably remember the rash of Satanism that struck middle-class America during those harrowing times. Grady Hendrix is the author of the novels Horrorstör, about a haunted IKEA, and My Best Friend's Exorcism, which is like Beaches meets The Exorcist, only it's set in the Eighties.