These Ghosts Are Family: A Novel
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. Stanford Solomon's shocking, thirty-year-ol...show more
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. Stanford Solomon's shocking, thirty-year-ol...show more
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Thirty-five years ago Abel Paisley faked his death and assumed the identity of his friend Standford Solomon. Leaving behind a wife who resented him and two small children with no memory of him in Jamaica, Abel-now Standford started over in America creating a new family. The consequences of these decisions take readers back to colonial Jamaica and forward to present-day Harlem on an emotional rollercoaster of pain, mystery, regret, and the true de...read more
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