The Resource These ghosts are family : a novel, Maisy Card
These ghosts are family : a novel, Maisy Card
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The item These ghosts are family : a novel, Maisy Card represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "After giving up his fight against the arthritis that now leaves him wheelchair bound, Stanford Solomon decides the time has come to reveal his thirty-five-year-old secret. In the early 1970s, a man named Abel Paisley left Jamaica for England in search of fortune. Not long after Abel's arrival in London, his childhood friend ... dies tragically. Abel Paisley makes a choice: he decides to steal his friend Stanford's identity and fake his own death, consequently forsaking the young family he left behind in Jamaica. More than thirty years later, Irene Paisley emigrates from Jamaica to Florida. As she travels across the country to New York, struggling to make ends meet as a home health aide, she finds herself specially requested by a new client--Stanford Solomon"--Dust jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Contents
-
- The true death of Abel Paisley
- The lamb or the lion
- Gratitude
- Past lives
- Atonement
- Forgive me
- Replacement
- Estelle's black eye
- Ancestors
- Ancestor worship
- How we are born
- Isbn
- 9781982117436
- Label
- These ghosts are family : a novel
- Title
- These ghosts are family
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Maisy Card
- Subject
-
- Families -- Fiction
- Fatherless families -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Gothic fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Identity theft -- Fiction
- Jamaica -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Jamaicans -- England -- Fiction
- Absence and presumption of death -- Fiction
- Novels
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Jamaicans -- United States -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "After giving up his fight against the arthritis that now leaves him wheelchair bound, Stanford Solomon decides the time has come to reveal his thirty-five-year-old secret. In the early 1970s, a man named Abel Paisley left Jamaica for England in search of fortune. Not long after Abel's arrival in London, his childhood friend ... dies tragically. Abel Paisley makes a choice: he decides to steal his friend Stanford's identity and fake his own death, consequently forsaking the young family he left behind in Jamaica. More than thirty years later, Irene Paisley emigrates from Jamaica to Florida. As she travels across the country to New York, struggling to make ends meet as a home health aide, she finds herself specially requested by a new client--Stanford Solomon"--Dust jacket flap
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Card, Maisy
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- genealogical tables
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.A7325
- LC item number
- T47 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fatherless families
- Grief
- Secrecy
- Families
- Identity theft
- Absence and presumption of death
- Jamaicans
- Jamaicans
- Jamaica
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- These ghosts are family : a novel, Maisy Card
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The true death of Abel Paisley -- The lamb or the lion -- Gratitude -- Past lives -- Atonement -- Forgive me -- Replacement -- Estelle's black eye -- Ancestors -- Ancestor worship -- How we are born
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9781982117436
- Lccn
- 2019038809
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- genealogical table
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)on1105940687
- (OCoLC)1105940687
- Label
- These ghosts are family : a novel, Maisy Card
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The true death of Abel Paisley -- The lamb or the lion -- Gratitude -- Past lives -- Atonement -- Forgive me -- Replacement -- Estelle's black eye -- Ancestors -- Ancestor worship -- How we are born
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9781982117436
- Lccn
- 2019038809
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- genealogical table
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)on1105940687
- (OCoLC)1105940687
Subject
- Families -- Fiction
- Fatherless families -- Jamaica -- Fiction
- Gothic fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Identity theft -- Fiction
- Jamaica -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Jamaicans -- England -- Fiction
- Absence and presumption of death -- Fiction
- Novels
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Jamaicans -- United States -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
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