Dan even goes to visit a local man who has published a website about the asylum. Abby becomes obsessed with learning more about her.Īs Abby and Jordan become distracted by their own problems, Dan finds himself drawn into the history of Brookline.

However, among the patient files, Abby finds an admittance card that suggests her aunt was once a patient at Brookline. What they see is creepy and they come to the conclusion they should not go again. The trio make another trip into the basement, this time going much further than before. At the same time, Abby has become oddly obsessed with the picture she took from the warden’s office. Jordan also becomes obsessed with a mathematical problem that is supposed to be unsolvable. First, Jordan is annoyed with them for not informing him of their date. Dan even gets up the nerve to take Abby out on a date. They become inseparable during this first week of the program. The following day, Dan and his friends choose their first set of classes, deciding to take several classes together. Abby is so taken with the photo that she decides to take it. Dan finds the pictures Felix mentioned and Abby finds another photo of a young girl with vacant eyes. The trio decides to go explore the offices. During a discussion of Brookline and its history, Dan tells his new friends what Felix told him about the warden’s office. Abby introduces Dan to her friend, Jordan. When Dan tells his roommate, Felix, he learns that the former warden’s office is on the first floor and there are more photos there.ĭan goes to the ice cream social for the program attendees and meets a girl, Abby.

Dan finds an odd photo in a drawer in his room. Asylum is a novel of the supernatural as well as a novel of friendship and overcoming difficult obstacles.ĭan Crawford arrives at New Hampshire College and immediately goes to Brookline, the former asylum that now houses the dorm rooms for the summer program Dan is there to attend. However, things begin to change after they begin exploring the basement rooms of the old asylum where their dorm rooms are housed. Dan’s hopes seem to come true when he befriends Abby and Jordan. Always an outsider, Dan hopes that this summer will bring a change, allowing him to make friends with interests similar to his own. In this novel, Dan Crawford is spending his summer at the New Hampshire College Prep program. Asylum is a novel by writer Madeleine Roux.

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