

Once I finished reading the novel, I was confident the adaptation could be done. I was first introduced to the book by St. We can only stand by and watch Charles and Shelly Ripley’s uncalculated descent as they graciously welcome new neighbors Ruskin and Sybil Marsh into their home - only later to face the unimaginable, unforeseeable and incalculable costs of befriending the wrong people. Novelists Eric Higgs, inspired by the unrivaled imagery of the 15th Century Dutch painter, Hieronymus Bosch, weaves an enlightening, sinister and telling tale of an urban, contemporary couple’s vicious, downward spiral as they are introduced to the darker, and finer aspects of the American Dream.
