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These ghosts are family :
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271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition 
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Production / Publication Information 
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Summary 
"These Ghosts are Family centers on Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision reverberate across generations. Ghosts follows the Paisleys over time and across continents, as they wrestle with the burdens of family lore and struggle to forge independent identities. Despite everything, Abel finds a second chance at love. Vincent follows his dream to move to New York. Irene also moves to New York but realizes you can never fully leave the past behind. Set in the United States and Jamaica, Card's debut incorporates elements of gothic fiction and Jamaican folklore to explore the immigrant experience, as told through the voices of these flawed, memorable characters. In luminous prose that announces the arrival of a new American talent, These Ghosts are Family inspects the weight of long-held secrets, the limits of forgiveness, and the complexities of family ties"--
Call Number 
FICTION CARD
Publication Date 
2020
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781982117436
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These ghosts are family :
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Audio disc
Physical Description 
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition 
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information 
[New York, NY] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2020]
Summary 
Stanford Solomon has a shocking, thirty-year-old secret. And it's about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford Solomon is actually Abel Paisley, a man who faked his own death and stole the identity of his best friend. 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. Revolving around the consequences of Abel's decision the story of the Paisley family is told from colonial Jamaica to present day Harlem. There is Vera, whose widowhood forced her into the role of single mother. There are two daughters and a granddaughter who have never known they are related. 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.
Call Number 
CD FICTION CARD
Publication Date 
2020
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781797103907 9781797103914
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These ghosts are family
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Large print
Physical Description 
400 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition 
Large print edition.
Production / Publication Information 
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2020.
Summary 
Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision reverberate across generations. -- adapted from jacket, regular print edition
Call Number 
LARGE PRINT FICTION CARD
Publication Date 
2020
Language 
English
ISBN 
9781643586250
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