A reunion of ghosts
(2015)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/MITCHELL,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
382 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062355881 (hardcover : acid-free paper), 0062355880 (hardcover : acid-free paper), 9780062355898 (softcover : acid-free paper), 0062355899 (softcover : acid-free paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired in part by the troubled life of Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of mustard gas"--