The cake house: a novel

✍ Scribed by Salom, Latifah

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 166 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: California--Los Angeles., Los Angeles (Calif.
• ISBN: 0345806522

✦ Synopsis

Rosaura Douglas's father shot himself after her mother left him . . . or at least that's the story everyone is telling. Now her mother has remarried and Rosie is trapped in "The Cake House," a garish pink edifice in the hills of Los Angeles that's a far cry from the cramped apartment where she grew up. It's also the house where her father died--a fact that everyone else who lives there, including her mother, Dahlia, and her mysteriously wealthy stepfather, Claude, want to forget.

Soon, however, her father's ghost appears, sometimes in a dark window, sometimes in the house's lush garden, but always with warnings that Claude is not to be trusted. And as the ghost becomes increasingly violent--and the secrets of her family's past come to light--Rosie must finally face the truth behind the losses and lies that have torn her life apart.

✦ Subjects

California -- Los Angeles