The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
Description
In a luminous collection of one hundred stories, a haunting question echoes again and again: what does it mean to remain when the body is gone? Spanning intimate afterlives, uncanny encounters, and quietly devastating moments, these variations follow ghosts and near-ghosts as they revisit love, regret, memory, and the fragile boundaries between presence and absence. With Brockmeier’s signature blend of lyrical imagination and emotional precision, the book turns the supernatural into a lens for human longing—asking how we grieve, how we change, and what stories we tell to keep the dead close. Part meditation, part wonder, this is a journey through the many ways a life can continue to speak.
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hardcover
Pantheon
Published Oct 6, 2020
288 pages
ISBN: 9781524748838
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First Published
2019
Language
eng
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