As the novel We Are a Haunting opens, Audrey is headed to eviction court. Her infraction: overdue rent for a public-housing apartment where repairs are also overdue. Still, the rent keeps increasing. A neighborhood fish fry could easily cover what she owes. But why take money from other poor people to give it to a landlord, she wonders. “Normal people don’t have to transcend their surroundings,” she thinks to herself.
Not to mention that there is a ghost living in the home she is set to be evicted from.
