A Reunion of Ghosts

A Reunion of Ghosts
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‘A triumphant, beautiful, and devastating novel about coincidences, family, and the sins of our fathers’ Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See‘Had me devouring the pages … Tragic, touching and – against all odds – strangely uplifting’ Stylist Magazine, 5 StarsMeet the Alter sisters: Lady, Vee and Delph. These three mordantly witty, complex women share their family’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. They love each other fiercely, but being an Alter isn’t easy. Bad luck is in their genes, passed down through the generations. Yet no matter what life throws at these siblings, they always have a wisecrack – and each other.In the waning days of 1999, the sisters decide it’s time to close the circle of the Alter curse. But first, as the world counts down to the dawn of a new millennium, Lady, Vee and Delph must write the final chapter of a saga generations in the making – one that is inexorably intertwined with that of the twentieth century itself. Unspooling threads of history, personal memory and family lore, they weave a mesmerising account of their lives that stretches back decades to their great-grandfather, a brilliant scientist whose professional triumph became the sinister legacy that defines them.Magnificent and heartbreaking, A REUNION OF GHOSTS is an epic novel about three unforgettable women, bound to each other and their remarkable family through the blessings and the burdens bestowed by blood.

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Judith Mitchell Claire. A Reunion of Ghosts

A Reunion of Ghosts. Judith Claire Mitchell

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Dedication

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3. 1868

1871

1874

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5. 1878

1879–1881

1890

The Gay Nineties

December 1900

1901

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7. 1905

ALTER

EINSTEIN

ALTER

1911

Spring 1914

August 4, 1914

December 1914

April 1915

May 1915

CHAPTER 8. November 1933

March 1934

1938

May 1945

September 1945

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

DECEMBER 2010

AUTHOR’S NOTE

NAMES MENTIONED IN A REUNION OF GHOSTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ALSO BY JUDITH CLAIRE MITCHELL

About the Publisher

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For my parents,

Leo and Claire Mitchell

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She was so disappointed in herself, felt so inept, so useless, she couldn’t help it; she, who never cried, began to weep. She had to give herself another little lecture, tell herself that it wasn’t a big deal, that she’d simply return to the store and exchange the screwdriver-like tool for an actual screwdriver. How hard would that be? She knew she could alternatively stick the impostor screwdriver into a drawer, then go out and buy a replacement within blocks of her apartment. It wasn’t as if the aggregate cost of the almost-screwdriver and a genuine screwdriver both was going to break her. But if she did that, then she would have to live with a screwdriver-like device that made her feel stupid. She might as well have invited Joe Hopper back.

She wiped her eyes with a nearby dish towel and got a grip. The truth was, she needed to go back to Riverdale anyway. She not only had to return the goddamn screwdriver, she had to return the photo of Beef. How stupid to give in to the impulse to swipe it. How baffling the impulse itself. Had she imagined that the dentist, when he surveyed his new and improved office, wouldn’t notice its absence?

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