Nobody Owens is a rare mortal capable of conferring with the dead and living. In fact he was raised in a graveyard after the rest of his family was murdered by one of the "Jacks of all Trades." In this particular case, Jack the Ripper dispatched his sister and parents. His parents are a childless dead couple, his guardian is a vampire, and his instructor a pleasant female werewolf from Transylvania. His best friend, however, back when he was five years old, is a human girl. In Gaiman's capable hands, this coming of age story explains how Bod (short for Nobody) navigates a life outside the cemetery where his life is in grave danger among the living and inside the cemetery where his life is devoid of friends and there is insufficient stimulation for a growing young man.
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