The things that we need to bring to light. They’re concealing the pain that’s in that house. It doesn’t matter if she actually transformed the way she said she did. This is about the place where my mom’s life changed forever on a last-minute getaway she took with a boyfriend ten years ago when Grace first opened the place. This is more than forgotten Black girls and dead bodies. This is more than the mystery of Daisy and Grace. One of them, however, has an ulterior motive: Even as guests like Brittney’s mother raved about their therapeutic experiences staying there, Daisy’s own psyche was unraveling, culminating in a series of assaults and deaths that would, a decade on, inspire two crusading film-makers to ask questions about the Black girls of Miracle Mansion whom everyone else seemed to want to forget.
While Grace’s conversion of the mansion to an AirBnB was successful from the start, Daisy’s mental state began to swiftly deteriorate. The implicit agreement had been that once they had the financial stability that renting out the manor house would provide, young Daisy could finally be free of taking responsibility for her odd, distant mother, and perhaps start living for herself.īut strange things kept happening on the island and at what Daisy would quickly grow to believe was a house haunted by multiple ghosts. Besides, Grace had always dangled the prospect of owning the mansion like a carrot in front of her. The paperwork had finally come through, allowing Grace to inherit a family mansion she wanted to use to provide herself and her daughter with both a steady income and an affordable place to live.ĭaisy was glad enough to move after a disastrous breakup made her do some questionable things. Ten years ago, Grace Odlin took her teenage daughter Daisy with her from Toronto to live on a small island in the relatively remote city of Timmins, Ontario. After two hit seasons, the friends are ready to set their sights on a subject that is deeply personal to Brittney: the “Miracle Mansion” where people end up transformed for the better, if they’re lucky. Torte hired the college students to continue producing the show-an Internet series about the strange and supernatural-under their umbrella. Delicious Monsters is a tremendous achievement, a haunted house novel that talks about generational abuse and the ways that shame and silence are wielded, against Black women in particular, to protect those in power.īrittney is a videographer interning with Torte, a media company that took an interest in the series she was filming with her best and possibly only friend, Jayden. After I finished reading this harrowing yet ultimately cathartic novel, I felt like my skin had been scoured clean, as if the emotional wringer I had just gone through had been so powerful that it left a physical effect on my body.
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