According to publisher the University of Minnesota Press, Jack & the Ghost "might call to mind the likes of Wes Anderson, Edward Gorey, or the Decemberists." Music fans, though, are most likely to be immediately reminded of the Top Ten Troubadour, Gordon Lightfoot.
"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy," sang the Canadian folk singer in his iconic 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
In the first words of Jack & the Ghost, Chan Poling (the Suburbs, the New Standards) writes, "The November storms on the great lake could be deadly."
I reviewed Jack & the Ghost for The Current’s Rock and Roll Book Club.
















