In luminous prose that announces the arrival of a new American talent, this edition inspects the weight of long-held secrets, the limits of forgiveness, and the complexities of Family ties.
He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best.
Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine.
Stanford Solomon\'s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him.
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.
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.
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.
And there are others, like the houseboy 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 a 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.
He is a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend.
Stanford has done something no one could ever imagine.
Stanford Solomon\'s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him.
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.
In luminous prose that announces the arrival of a new American talent, this edition inspects the weight of long-held secrets, the limits of forgiveness, and the complexities of Family ties
