Description A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican Family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
This electric and luminous Family saga announces the arrival of a new American talent..
The result is an engrossing 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.
These Ghosts Are Family explores the ways each character wrestles with their Ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the Family and their trauma.
And there are others, like the house boy who loved Vera, whose lives might have taken different courses if not for Abel Paisley\'s actions.
There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related.
There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of single mother.
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.
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.
Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley, a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend.
And it\'s about to change the lives of everyone around him.
Stanford Solomon has a shocking, thirty-year-old secret.
Description A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican Family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
