Ghost Summer: Stories - Tananarive Due - Books - Prime Books - 9781607014539 - August 25, 2015
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Ghost Summer: Stories

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Ghost Summer: Stories

Takes you to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness.


Marc Notes: Here Tananarive Due brings you her debut short fiction collection! This collection includes 'Patient Zero', 'The Lake', 'The Knowing', 'Herd Immunity', and many other stories. Her novels include the 'My Soul to Keep' series, 'The Between', 'The Good House', and 'Joplin's Ghost'. Publisher Marketing: "Ms. Due accomplishes the hardest thing of all with deceptive ease, creating characters we care about on their most human level." - Stephen King "In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award-winner Due (My Soul to Take) uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present." - Publishers Weekly (Starred) Named one of Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror titles for the fall! Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due's work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories-one of which has never been published before-GHOST SUMMER: STORIES, is sure to both haunt and delight. The title novella, Ghost Summer, won a Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society (originally published in The Ancestors). This collection includes Patient Zero, The Lake, The Knowing, Herd Immunity, and many other stories. With an Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson and an Afterword by Steven Barnes. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 07/20/2015 (EAN 9781607014539, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Contributor Bio:  Due, Tananarive Tananarive Due is a Miami Herald columnist. A finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for a first novel, she is also included in Naked Came the Manatee, a collaborative mystery novel featuring Miami writers. She lives in Miami, FL.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 25, 2015
ISBN13 9781607014539
Publishers Prime Books
Genre Ethnic Orientation > African American
Pages 256
Dimensions 228 × 154 × 24 mm   ·   453 g
Language English  

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