03169cam a2200577 i 4500 888582966 TxAuBib 20210727120000.0 190829s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019038809 9781982117436 hardcover 1982117435 hardcover 9781982117443 paperback 1982117443 paperback (OCoLC)1105940687 DLC eng rda DLC RB0 ACN GO4 NZAUC UAP TCH GO6 OCLCF YDX DGU HFU TxAuBib rda Card, Maisy, author. These ghosts are family : a novel / Maisy Card. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020. ©2020. 271 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20210727. 1900-1999. Fatherless families Jamaica Fiction. Fatherless families. Grief Fiction. Grief. Absence and presumption of death Fiction. Absence and presumption of death. Jamaicans United States Fiction. Jamaicans England Fiction. Jamaicans. FICTION / African American / General. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Family Life / General. Manners and customs. Jamaica Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Jamaica. England. United States. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Gothic fiction. Novels. Jamaican fiction.