Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old incharge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgivingcustomers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who iscommitted to destroying everything she’s worked for.
Wendell is aghost. A boy who lost his life much too young, his daily routine featuresineffective death therapy, a sheet-dependent identity, and a dangerous need toseek purpose in the forbidden human world.
When their worlds collide,Marjorie is confronted by unexplainable disasters as Wendell transformsGlatt’s Laundry into his midnight playground, appearing as a mere sheetduring the day. While Wendell attempts to create a new afterlife for himself, heunknowingly sabotages the life that Marjorie is struggling tomaintain.
Sheets illustrates the determination of a young girl to fight,even when all parts of her world seem to be conspiring against her. It provesthat second chances are possible whether life feels over or life is over. Butabove all, it is a story of the forgiveness and unlikely friendship that canonly transpire inside a haunted laundromat.
"Brenna Thummler’s firstoriginal graphic novel is a reason to celebrate. She announced herself as anartist to reckon with when she illustrated Mariah Marsden’s adaptation of Anneof Green Gables. Now she’s illustrated her own story of ghosts and family,loneliness and laundromats. I’m sure you’ll be captivated, and as eager as I amto see what comes next!"—Brian Selznick, author of Wonderstruck and TheInvention of Hugo Cabret