I enjoyed Bohjalian's Night Strangers, in which a pilot, having flubbed a water landing (absolutely brilliantly depicted), copes by moving his family to New England where his family are stalked by seriously creepy witches. The Sandcastle Girls is entirely different. The backdrop here is the Armenian genocide, in which a wealthy young American woman doing mission work with Armenian refugees in Aleppo meets an Armenian man with a terrible past, leading to not-entirely-unforeseen plot twists, lifelong secrets, etc. Toggling back and forth between the present and the long past, we have two audio readers, one perfect, the other with a kittenish diction completely inappropriate for a novel about mass murder, rape and starvation. This may have been a great read in print; the audio earns a C+.
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