
Ghost Summer
Stories
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Tananarive Due
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Robin Miles
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Janina Edwards
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Tananarive Due
Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence best-selling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and 15 stories, Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to both haunt and delight.
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Great Anthogy Book
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-very fun spooky season read! The first section Gracetown wasn’t my fav, but everything after that was like 5 stars.
-the author gives you a little back story behind each chapter. It’s really cool peeking into someone’s mind and getting an idea of how their imagination works.
This was also free for me to listen to on Audible, so this was an awesome find!
Perfect spooky season listening
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I didn't think I would like it but did
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There's nothing not to love in this collection, but it's the Gracetown stories kicking everything off that stuck with me the most. This strange, haunted place in northern Florida arrests the reader just as it seems to capture residents and visitors, sometimes in horrifying ways. Gracetown is a place of transformation and possession. It's a town where the ghosts of a torturous, hateful past reveal uncomfortable truths.
Due provides us with glimpses of the past, of places where myth and legend overlap with the real world, where cultures collide with sometimes beautiful but often horrific results. We experience sadness and loss, sickness, and terror as the author paints all-too-real portraits of people, from those struggling to escape their circumstances to those hoping to find the peaceful embrace of death.
It isn't all about the past or present, as she also takes us to the end of the world, displaying a keen understanding of human nature that proved almost prescient when compared to the pandemic conditions that ushered us into the current decade.
Narration provided by Tananarive Due herself, as well as Robin Miles and Janina Edwards makes for a different experience from story to story, each individual breathing life into the narratives in slightly different ways, but never in an unsatisfactory manner.
Haunting and Beautiful
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It was such a treat getting a little nugget of background information from the author at the end of each story! And the sublime love letter of an Afterword written by Tananarive’s husband, Steven Barnes: just beautiful.
I enjoyed the narrators very much. Each one seemed to capture the tone and energy of a variety of characters - female and male of all ages. It’s nice when the author is a good and impactful narrator since the words belong to them.
More Emotional Than Expected
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Great short stories!
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Will be buying all of this author’s work!
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liked most but not all
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Connections
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Enchanting and chilling
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