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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
The East Wing by Danielle M. Wong follows Wren Lee, a Boston barista who learns that the grandfather she believed died years ago has only recently passed away and left his mansion in Dukette, Virginia, to her. Hoping the inheritance will offer distance from the traumatic night that triggered her severe insomnia, Wren travels south to inspect the property. She arrives to find longtime housekeeper Ruth still living there under a strict set of rules, including one forbidding access to the mansion’s east wing. As worsening weather cuts Wren off from outside help, unanswered questions about her father’s estrangement from the family begin pointing back to the house itself. Determined to understand why her family kept the estate secret, Wren starts searching for what has been hidden inside for decades.
In The East Wing, Danielle M. Wong gives readers an eerie sense of place that works beautifully with Wren Lee’s uncertain perceptions. Wong gives aspiring novelist Wren a perceptive sense of humor, such as her dry reading of motivational posters during a near-death support meeting, while housekeeper Ruth becomes increasingly unnerving in moments like her calm explanation of an Icelandic lullaby about a monster at the window. And then there's that mansion. Wong breathes life, and a bit of death, into each setting, from a burgundy room lined with sharks' teeth beside an animatronic clown, to an ancestral burial ground where bare branches crowd above snow-covered tombstones. Wong is masterful at placing one strange detail into another, like a childhood drawing captioned “He’s worse than she is” shifting her suspicions again. This is the perfect book for readers looking for Gothic psychological thrillers. Very highly recommended.
