I read a review of this book somewhere and decided it sounded pretty good. As has happened several times this year, I didn't realize that it was horror until I started it, but unlike NOS4A2, which I found so scary that I had to stop reading it (pathetic, I know), I persevered to the end because it was good and engrossing.
When you meet the main character, Hannah, she and her husband and daughter are fleeing...something...in terror. You gradually learn what they are fleeing, through hearing their story, the story of her parents, and the story of previous generations of her family in Hunga