Before and Afterlives

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Before and Afterlives

Author	: Christopher Barzak
File Size	: 44,7 Mb
Publisher	: Lethe Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 05 May 2024
ISBN	: 9781590213698
Pages	: 242 pages

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Before and Afterlives by Christopher Barzak Book PDF Summary

Discover the haunting stories of Crawford Award-winning author Christopher Barzak in his new collection Before and Afterlives. These are tales of relationships with unearthly domesticity and eeriness: a woman falls in love with a haunted house; a beached mermaid is substituted for a lost missing daughter; the imaginary friend of a murdered young mother stalks the streets of her small town; a teenage boy is afflicted with a disease that causes him to vanish; a father exploits his daughter's talent for calling ghosts to her; and a wife leaves her husband and children to fulfill her obligations to a world from which she escaped.

Before and Afterlives by Christopher Barzak

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