The Ghost in Love

• Book ID: 126900626
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Standards

✦ Synopsis

Welcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of "The Ghost in Love." A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man "doesn’t "die, and the ghost that’s been sent to take his soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately to its boss, the ghost asks, what should I do now? The boss says, we don’t know how this happened but we’re working on it. We want you to stay with this man to help us figure out what’s going on.

The ghost agrees unhappily; it is a ghost, not a nursemaid. But a funny thing happens—the ghost falls madly in love with the man’s girlfriend, and things naturally get complicated. Soon afterward, the man discovers he did not die when he was “supposed” to because for the first time in their history, human beings have decided to take their fates back from the gods. It’s a wonderful change, but one that comes at a price.

"The Ghost in Love "is about what happens to us when we discover that we have become the masters of our own fate. No excuses, no outside forces or gods to blame—the responsibility is all our own. It’s also about love, ghosts that happen to be gourmet cooks, talking dogs, and picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different ages.

✦ Subjects

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