Card Maisy
Card Maisy - These Ghosts Are Family A Novel - Paperback
Card Maisy - These Ghosts Are Family A Novel - Paperback
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Description: Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A rich ambitious debut novel (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. * An Entertainment Weekly Millions and Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 Pick and Buzz Magazine's Top New Book of the New Decade* Stanford Solomon's shocking thirty - year - old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. And now nearing the end of his life Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter Irene Paisley a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel's decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present - day Harlem. There is Vera whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others like the houseboy who loved Vera whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley's actions. This rich and layered story (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a beguiling vividly drawn and compelling (Book Page starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history slavery migration and the more personal dramas of infidelity lost love and regret.
Title: These Ghosts Are Family A Novel
Author(s): Card Maisy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982117443
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 1/5/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A rich ambitious debut novel (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. * An Entertainment Weekly Millions and Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 Pick and Buzz Magazine's Top New Book of the New Decade* Stanford Solomon's shocking thirty - year - old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine. He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley. And now nearing the end of his life Stanford is about to meet his firstborn daughter Irene Paisley a home health aide who has unwittingly shown up for her first day of work to tend to the father she thought was dead. These Ghosts Are Family revolves around the consequences of Abel's decision and tells the story of the Paisley family from colonial Jamaica to present - day Harlem. There is Vera whose widowhood forced her into the role of a single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. And there are others like the houseboy who loved Vera whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley's actions. This rich and layered story (Kirkus Reviews) explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is a beguiling vividly drawn and compelling (Book Page starred review) portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history slavery migration and the more personal dramas of infidelity lost love and regret.
Title: These Ghosts Are Family A Novel
Author(s): Card Maisy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982117443
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 1/5/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
