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A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted
Dial Press Trade Paperback
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 0385342438
EAN: 9780385342438
Kindle: B0078XCLMC
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Non-Fiction Memoir
At once hilarious and incredibly moving, Giving Up the Ghost
is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost
story like no other.
Eric Nuzum is afraid of the supernatural, and for good
reason: As a high school oddball in Canton, Ohio, during the
early 1980s, he became convinced that he was being haunted
by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress who lived in
his parents’ attic. It began as a weird premonition during
his dreams, something that his quickly diminishing circle of
friends chalked up as a way to get attention. It ended with
Eric in a mental ward, having apparently destroyed his life
before it truly began. The only thing that kept him from the
brink: his friendship with a girl named Laura, a classmate
who was equal parts devoted friend and enigmatic crush. With
the kind of strange connection you can only forge when
you’re young, Laura walked Eric back to “normal”—only to
become a ghost herself in a tragic twist of fate.
Years later, a fully functioning member of society with a
great job and family, Eric still can’t stand to have any
shut doors in his house for fear of what’s on the other
side. In order to finally confront his phobia, he enlists
some friends on a journey to America’s most haunted places.
But deep down he knows it’s only when he digs up the ghosts
of his past, especially Laura, that he’ll find the peace
he’s looking for.
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