A dying drug kingpin enslaved to the memory of his dead wife; a young
woman torn between a promising future and the hardscrabble world she
grew up in; a mother willing to do anything to fuel her addiction to
pills; and her youngest son, searching for the truth behind his older
brother's disappearance, are just some of the unforgettable characters
that populate Ghosting, Kirby Gann's lush and lyrical novel of family
and community, and the ties that can both bond and betray.
Fleece Skaggs has disappeared, along with drug dealer Lawrence Gruel's
reefer harvest. Deciding that the best way to discover what happened to
his older brother is to take his place as a drug runner for Gruel, James
Cole plunges into a dark underworld of drugs, violence, and long hidden
family secrets, where discovering what happened to his brother could
cost him his life.
A genre-subverting literary mystery told from the alternating viewpoint
of different characters, Ghosting is both a simple quest for the
truth--what exactly happened to Fleece Skaggs?--and a complex
consideration of human frailty.
