infanticide, drug use, minor graphic violence
Twenty years later Trevor McGee, also a cartoonist, returns to Missing Mile to the house in which his family once lived. He has been running from the truth for years, and finally realizes he must face his demons. He fears that what happened to his father will happen to him. But if it does, Trevor thinks, at least I won't have anyone to kill. That is, until he befriends Zachary Bosch, a computer hacker from New Orleans running from the law.
In the house, which Trevor calls Birdland, they must confront much more than bad memories. For the house itself carries its own dark force, which threatens to envelop Trevor in the past and destroy him.
Escaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, cartoonist Trevor McGee returns to confront the past, and finds himself haunted by the same demons that drove his father to insanity.
A haunted house novel surrounding the budding relationship of two gay-boys. Not anywhere near as horrific as most of Poppy's other works, but just as queer. For those that are wary of Brite's works because of the graphic violence, this one is probably the easiest to read.