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Ghost Stories

by E.M. Broner · 1995

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In self-contained stories that Marilyn French describes as honest without cynicism, loving without sentimentality, angry without bitterness, a woman helps her elderly mother grow old and die — only to have her come back as a ghost, to settle all that she left out in life. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, this episodic novel returns us to Broner's inimitable fictional world.

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Themes
JewishJewishMore like thisLess of thismothersmothersMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 180 pages
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