*For decades, inexplicable technology has passed into our world through the top secret anomaly called the Breach. The latest device can punch a hole into the future ..."* What Paige Campbell saw when she opened a door into seventy years from now scared the hell out of her. She and her Tangent colle
Ghosts of Bergen County
โ Scribed by Dana Cann
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Edition
- First US edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Set in New York City and New Jersey on the cusp of the financial crisis, Ghosts of Bergen County is a literary mystery with supernatural elements.
Gil Ferko is a private-equity lieutenant who commutes to Manhattan from the New Jersey suburbs. His wife, Mary Beth, has become a shut-in since a hit-and-run accident killed their infant daughter. When Ferko reconnects with Jen Yoder, a former high school classmate, Jen introduces him to heroin. As his dependency on the drug grows, his downward spiral puts his life in danger and his career in jeopardy. Mary Beth has also found an escape--first in prescription drugs that numb her senses, then in the companionship of a mysterious girl who heightens them. A ghost? Mary Beth believes so. And Jen is also haunted. Years ago she witnessed a man she had just met fall from a rooftop. She walked away from the accident and has been haunted since by the question of why she did so. As her quest to rectify that mistake...
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