Book review: Hungry Ghosts a potent thriller where absence makes the heart grow hungrier

Hungry Ghosts’ cast of rich and poor are all motivated by what they do not have. PHOTO: BLOOMSBURY
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By Kevin Jared Hosein
Fiction/Bloomsbury/Paperback/352 pages/$29.95/Books Kinokuniya
5 stars

Several absences haunt Kevin Jared Hosein’s first novel for adults – chief of which is the mysterious vanishment of Dalton Changoor, inheritor of dubious wealth. He leaves behind his wife Marlee in his grand manor, and although his disappearance drives the story, we never hear from his perspective.

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