The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Published by Recorded Books Inc. on 2011 March 28
Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Pages: 6
Format: Audiobook
Source: Borrowed from Public Library
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Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.
Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?
It’s not every day that you get to encounter a book that would affect you so deeply that you just want to savor in its quaintness for how many days. The Graveyard Book is one such book wherein Neil Gaiman’s storytelling enhanced the richness of Nobody Owen’s, our little hero, story.
Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens grew up and was raised by the ghosts in the graveyard. Bod thought that this was normal as he traipsed around and explored the graveyard as a growing child would normally do. However, his normal life within the compounds of the graveyard was turned upside and down when he befriended a fellow kid named Scarlet who was the same age as his. For the first time in his life, Bod was able to go out of the cemetery, meet people who are not ghosts, and learn about new things that are normal and mystical. Although these experiences with Scarlet were not enough to awaken Bod’s curiosity of the outside world, Scarlet and her family left town and Bod thought that she was just an imaginary friend. And then, another trial upheaved Bod’s life; Silas, the mysterious gravetaker and self-appointed guardian of Bod has to take a temporary leave from the cemetery and he was put under the watchful eye of Miss Lupescu. At the first encounter, Bod immediately disliked her but Miss Lupescu proved to be a blessing in disguise to Bod’s life.
Meeting Scarlet and warming up to Miss Lupescu, Bod is finally showing traces that he’s curious to know what the world is all about. Starting as a somewhat arrogant boy who declared that he already knows everything and therefore, no longer needs additional lessons, Bod was hit with a lot of realizations about how the world works and how everything is wrapped with mysteries of its own just like his birth and how he came to the graveyard.
I don’t care how the readers look at this book but I see The Graveyard book as a coming-of-age, eerie, and fairy taleish story about a hero who, despite the strange circumstances of his upbringing, was brave enough to learn and face crises after crises thrown at him at every stage of his young life. There’s something uplifting about how Bod, with that endearing naivety of his, always rose to the occasion and never allowing himself to sulk or fall into a depression or brood with angst for far so long.
Everything about this world that Neil Gaiman created was both beautiful and hauntingly sad at the same time. Beautiful in the sense that the story’s atmosphere was perfect for a story of a wacky family of ghosts trying their damnedest to raise a living child and hauntingly sad because you know, you know that one day, Bod will forget all about them as he makes his way to the living world.
All in all, The Graveyard Book is just a perfect story for readers of all ages. Highly recommended.