Wilder Harlow, a teenager, visits the coast of Maine with his parents and spends leisurely hours with his new friends Nat and Harper. Their idyllic summer is disrupted by an unthinkable evil. Wilder absconds to college, hoping to process his trauma by writing a novel, until an act of betrayal hobbles his dreams of success. Featuring ghosts, witchcraft, and a Proust-reading antagonist, Looking Glass Sound is a work of exquisite intricacy. By the end, the reader may be no more certain of reality than Wilder himself.