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Scribner
October 2012
On Sale: October 9, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 1451674635
EAN: 9781451674637
Kindle: B007EDOKRA
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
JOLIE HOYT IS A GOOD SOUTHERN GIRL living in Hendrix, a
small Florida Panhandle town. The daughter of a Pentecostal
preacher who sells insurance on the side, and the best
friend of a lively beauty who moves to the big city to
pursue a career in interior design, Jolie is all too aware
of her family’s closet full of secrets and long-held
distrust of outsiders. Nevertheless, she throws caution to
the wind when she meets Sam Lense, a Jewish anthropology
student from Miami, who is in town to study the ethnic
makeup of the region. Jolie and Sam fall recklessly in love and dream of beginning
a life together, far away from Jolie’s buried past. But
their affair ends abruptly when Sam is discovered to have
pried too deeply into Hendrix’s dark racial history and he
becomes the latest victim in a long tradition of small-town
violence. Twelve years later, when a black businessman from Memphis
returns to Hendrix to do right by his father’s memory, Jolie
and Sam are brought together again. They are forced to
revisit the unresolved issues of their young love and
finally shed light on the ugly history of Jolie’s hometown. A complex and compulsively readable Southern saga,
continuing in the tradition established by Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings and brought into the new millennium by writers like
Karen Russell and Kathryn Stockett, American Ghost was
inspired by Janis Owens’s extensive research on a real
lynching that occurred in 1934 in Marianna, Florida. American Ghost is a richly woven exploration of how the
events of our past haunt our present.
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