Charleston Green

Charleston Green
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A Novel

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2020

نویسنده

Stephanie Alexander

ناشر

Bublish, Inc.

شابک

9781647040512
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نقد و بررسی

Kirkus

In Alexander's lighthearted supernatural mystery, a newly single clairvoyant attempts to crack a cold case involving the ghosts that haunt her residence. Tipsy Collins, the recently divorced mother of three, just wants to get her life in order. She's hoping the move into an old house in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, will give her the space to figure out who she is again. The only problem? Tipsy is a clairvoyant--albeit a reluctant one. It's an ability she's had since childhood, though she's learned to ignore the ghosts that she's occasionally seen and heard since then. The house in Mount Pleasant, however, is home to two ghosts, Jane and Henry Mott, and as soon as she moves in Tipsy makes the mistake of acknowledging them. What's more, the two ghosts are not on speaking terms. Jane claims that Henry is responsible for their deaths--that he killed Jane and then himself--but Henry insists otherwise. "Supposedly she was murdered. Perhaps I did commit suicide," says the sensitive specter. "I have faults. Too many to name. But I'm not a murderer." Now, in addition to trying to wrest alimony from her ex, restart her stalled career as a painter, and dip her toes back into the dating world, Tipsy needs to solve a double murder from 1923 in order to put her ghostly roommates to rest. Alexander blends the warm humor of her characters with balmy descriptions of her Southern gothic setting. Her descriptions of Tipsy's paintings are particularly lyrical: "She blended the paints into an autumnal spectrum, tinting burnt orange to pumpkin and shading white to cream to caramel. Most of the lightest tones went to his shirt and skin. A gradual fade of auburn to russet brown in his freckles and brows and lashes eased the bright red shock of his hair." It's a breezy paranormal read, and yet one with more depth than the reader might expect from the premise. In Tipsy and her ghosts, Alexander finds a story about the frustrations of love and aging, as well as the weight that history places on the living, particularly, perhaps, in the South Carolina Lowcountry. An enchanting novel of a woman finding her way out of a midlife (and mid-death) crisis.

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