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I'm reading Shirley, by Susan Scarf Merrell, a novel about a young married couple, Rose and Fred, who live with Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman while Fred is a grad assistant at Bennington.
It's a odd book. Rose is telling the story, and while it's interesting--I like the way references and parallels to Jackson's writing are woven in--even though I'm about halfway through, I really don't quite know where it's going.
The narrator is Lesa Lockford, and she's fine for Rose's first-person narration, but I'm not too fond of the voice she uses for Shirley Jackson
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