I just picked this up and read about it and am WAY excited by the concept and praises on the back. "A tour de force, a remarkable feat of visual and verbal storytelling, as playful as it is serious, as haunting as it is delightful." -Michael Chabon 
 Part gothic history (Civil War era) novel, part ghost story, part scrapbook -- includes interspersed illustrations (scrapbook pages) done in black, white, red, and pink. 
 p. 23 - dislikeable