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A ghost is not what you think it is, says Raven. A ghost is a
commitment. When Laraine Herring receives an unexpected colon
cancer diagnosis, her father, thirty years dead, returns to her as
a raven, setting off a magical journey into complicated grief,
inherited trauma, and ancestral healing. As she struggles with
redefining her expectations for her life, she slips further and
further underground into the ancestral realm, where she finds
herself writing a play directed by her father-as-raven. Raven says,
It will be a cast of only four: you and me and my mother and my
father, and we will speak until there are no more words between us.
And then you can decide the ending. Tick, tock, write. A
Constellation of Ghosts takes the reader into the liminal spaces
between one world and another, where choices unspool into lives,
and the stories we've told ourselves fall apart under the scrutiny
of multiple perspectives like flesh from bone, reminding us that
grief is the unexpected ferryman who can usher all of us back
together again.
Mrs. Abigail Fisher, the South's Esteemed First Lady of Letters, is
in a rut. Her writing career has collapsed, and she has become an
embittered old woman living alone in a dilapidated house in
Georgia. Only she's not as alone as she thinks. One of her
characters, Pistachio Simmons, who had been cut from Mrs. Fisher's
best-selling novel, The Garden of Gethsemane, Georgia, has returned
to demand she be given the storyline she deserves. After Pistachio
starts a fire in the kitchen, Mrs. Fisher is forced to summon her
estranged daughter, Elise, back home. When Pistachio finds the
deleted pages from her book, she begins to create her own chapters
separate from the ones her author had given her. As Pistachio
flourishes, Mrs. Abigail Fisher fades, and mother and daughter are
forced to confront the failed plotlines of their own lives,
including the one they've tried hardest to ignore-the story of the
ghost-girl in the garden. Part magical realism, part meditation on
the creative process, part old-fashioned ghost story, Into the
Garden of Gethsemane, Georgia opens up the reader to the intimate
world of a writer and the characters, real and imagined, who haunt
her in the night.
A novel of San Francisco. On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of
the Summer of Love, Helen and Frank Connor arrive in San Francisco
to determine the fate of their marriage. A series of unexplainable
events sends the couple in separate directions deep into the ghosts
of the City's past, which include the fierce, fiddle-playing Elle,
who accidentally jumped to her death in 1967 and is now back to
reclaim her lost instrument, pulling along with her all the men who
stopped their lives for her. This ensemble novel is peppered with
classic San Francisco characters like Remmy X, an old hippie poet
who publishes a daily paper on his old Remington; Brian, haunter of
the City Lights Bookstore, who fell in love with Elle in 1967;
Penny Lane, the drag queen of North Beach; and Shep, Remmy's
faithful dog. Gathering Lights is a ghost story of five souls
suspended in the amber of their grief, and it will have you
believing in the power of love and music to change both the past
and the future.
How far would you go to protect someone you love? Nothing is black
or white in the murky town of Alderman, North Carolina, no matter
how much the human and ghostly residents of Idyllic Grove Rice
Plantation would like it to be. In 1949, fourteen-year-old Lillian
Green witnesses the unthinkable. Her choice to remain silent about
what she saw ripples into the swamp water surrounding her family s
home, awakening the ghost of Roberta du Bois, former rice
plantation mistress, who drowned herself in the swamp in 1859.
Roberta and Lillian forge a bond based on shame, silence, and an
impenetrable loneliness. When Lillian s daughter Hannah is born
into the maze of haunted hallways, Lillian has no interest in
raising her. Left alone, Hannah discovers Roberta as well as her
own exceptional singing voice. The tangled storylines of the three
women rooted to this Southern landscape pull the reader into the
layers of racism, family loyalties, and hidden relationships that
intertwine as naturally as the kudzu that covers the trees where
the Swamp Sirens sing. When the truth about what Lillian saw
surfaces, no one, living or dead, can prevent what must come next.
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