The Ghost at the Table
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- Synopsis
- San Francisco freelance writer Cynthia Fiske acquiesces to her maternal older sister, Frances, and attends the Thanksgiving family reunion Frances is hosting at her perfectly restored Colonial home in Concord, Mass. Cynthia believes her father, now 82, murdered their invalid mother with an overdose of pills when Cynthia was 13, and she has no wish to ever see him again. Within months after their mother died, their father packed Frances and Cynthia off to boarding school and married the much younger Ilse, a graduate student who worked as part-time tutor to Frances. But now he's suffered a stroke. Ilse is divorcing him, and the family is placing him in a home. Tension is high by the time the assorted guests, including Frances's complicated teenage daughters, her mysterious husband and the speech-impaired patriarch, are called to Frances's table, and it doesn't take much to fan the first flares of anger into the inevitable conflagration.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 266 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 04/11/07
- Copyrighted By:
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Ginn52
- Proofread By:
- Amber W
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.