A Reunion of Ghosts
by Judith Claire Mitchell
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Pub Date 26 Mar 2015 | Archive Date 11 Sep 2015
Description
‘A triumphant, beautiful, and devastating novel about coincidences, family, and the sins of our fathers’ Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See
‘Had me devouring the pages … Tragic, touching and – against all odds – strangely uplifting’ Stylist Magazine, 5 Stars
Meet the Alter sisters: Lady, Vee and Delph. These three mordantly witty, complex women share their family’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. They love each other fiercely, but being an Alter isn’t easy. Bad luck is in their genes, passed down through the generations. Yet no matter what life throws at these siblings, they always have a wisecrack – and each other.
In the waning days of 1999, the sisters decide it’s time to close the circle of the Alter curse. But first, as the world counts down to the dawn of a new millennium, Lady, Vee and Delph must write the final chapter of a saga generations in the making – one that is inexorably intertwined with that of the twentieth century itself. Unspooling threads of history, personal memory and family lore, they weave a mesmerising account of their lives that stretches back decades to their great-grandfather, a brilliant scientist whose professional triumph became the sinister legacy that defines them.
Magnificent and heartbreaking, A REUNION OF GHOSTS is an epic novel about three unforgettable women, bound to each other and their remarkable family through the blessings and the burdens bestowed by blood.
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EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780007594344 |
PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
Featured Reviews
This is definitely one of my recent reading highlights. Clever, intelligent, original and moving, it’s the story of three somewhat eccentric sisters who feel that they have been doomed by genetic inheritance to be unlucky and, now in their 40s, they come to the conclusion that suicide is the only option left to them. The story of how they arrive at their present hopeless mood takes the reader back over the decades, and we discover how their own personal stories are inextricably linked to their Jewish inheritance. It’s a dark and haunting story, but one leavened with much humour, not least because the sisters leaven their own thoughts and dialogue with puns and word play which, coming unexpectedly as they often do, frequently made me laugh out loud. Yes, it’s a sad and often depressing tale, a tale of lives that do in fact seemed doomed to tragedy and loss, but somehow the writing manages to carry the reader along, letting us in to these sisters’ lives and taking us on their journey with them. In the afterword the author makes clear that some of the story is based on fact, but she wears her research lightly, although always effectively, and it’s a novel that I found engaging and compelling and one that will long remain with me.