We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer’s debut novel, “ We Used to Live Here,” begins with a deceptively simple premise—what if you let strangers into your home and they refused to leave?

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For Eve and Charlie, a young queer couple who flip houses for a living, their dream renovation turns into a living nightmare when a man named Thomas Faust shows up with his family, claiming to have grown up in the house. What begins as an awkward courtesy visit soon devolves into psychological chaos. As the visiting family overstays their welcome, strange occurrences escalate—objects move, whispers echo through the basement, and Eve's sense of reality starts to unravel. When Charlie vanishes, Eve's desperate attempts to understand what's happening plu