Ghosts of Harvard is a bit of a ghost story, a bit of a mystery, and a bit problematic. Overall, it was an enjoyable story, but it’s handling of mental illness was questionable at times, and it’s attempt to cleanly tie it all up in the end felt disingenuous to the preceding story. Issues of race (white savior role) and sex (female protagonist overly reliant on male characters for help) were also oft putting in my read through, despite the text’s own attempts to brush these issues aside with humor. These qualms aside, Serritella deftly weaves together historical knowledge and theoretical physics to build an interesting mystery that speaks to issues of family life and dysfunction.