In Kate Ellison’s novel,” Notes from Ghost Town”, the main character goes through a period of her life in a state of confusion. Her Mother is in jail for murdering her best friend, she goes temporarily color blind, she then starts to see Stern, and she doesn’t understand why. To begin with, she starts to get confused is in the beginning of the book her and her best friend, Stern, are packing up her car so she can return to art school, the next day they find his body next to the ocean outside of their shed. Her Mother is brought in for questioning because she is suspected to be the murderer. Olivia, starts to foreshadow the rest of the story by saying “And Mom will be taken in the middle of the night and stuffed behind the bars of Broadwaithe
