When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories (American Lives)
by Amy E. Wallen
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- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0803296959
- ISBN 13
- 9780803296954
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Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UNP - Nebraska, 2018. Soft cover. As New. When Amy E. Wallens southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghouls follows Wallens recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the authors mother posits, hideous people? Or is Wallens memory out of focus? In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a good human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself. This book has been in storage since publication and is unread. Hence the description as new .
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- Title
- When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories (American Lives)
- Author
- Amy E. Wallen
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803296959
- ISBN 13
- 9780803296954
- Publisher
- UNP - Nebraska
- Date Published
- 2018
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