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These Ghosts are Family : A Novel

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist

Shortlisted 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.

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” (BookPage, 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.

Audioboek

  • Gepubliceerd: 3-3-2020

  • Taal: Engels

  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster Audio

  • ISBN: 9781797103891


Auteur:

  • Maisy Card

Formaat:

  • Audioboek

Duurtijd:

  • 9 u 55 min

Taal:

Engels

Categorieën:

  • Historische en volksverhalen
  • Historische romans

3.6

8 beoordelingen

Melisa

24-6-2025

This book was going well as in I could follow the story from all the different perspectives and time line and then I got lost at the last parts. I enjoy short stories and this seemed to be a marriage between that and a historical fiction novel.

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