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Ghost Summer: Stories
by Tananarive Due

Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781607014539
Imprint: Prime Books
Publisher: Prime Books
Parent Company: Prime Books

Paperback Description:

“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.” 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.



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