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description: From the Nightscape Press Charitable Chapbooks line. One third of all sales of this chapbook will go to support the Southern Poverty Law Center! The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society.This is a ghost story. It has those that scratch at bedroom doors and tap at windows wanting to be let in. It has those that haunt all of us long after the others tire of the scratching. For some doors are not enough.Bea Holcombe loves her life in Fontaine Falls a perfect little town tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. She has never thought to question that love until her next-door neighbor opens fire on a crowd of black demonstrators gathered in the city park to protest the towns Confederate statue. Lester Neal has torn open an invisible wound in Fontaine Falls and what festers inside of it will change Bea her family and the dimming mind of her mother forever.As the national media descends and violence spreads the town endures a conflict it is no longer insulated from. Bea is given a special sight so that she may witness how deep the rot has burrowed inside the postcard charm of Fontaine Falls. And she will be asked to turn the light of scrutiny and complicity upon herself as she is visited by horrors that wont rest quietly. This is a ghost story she tells us repeatedly. This unflinching poetic novella is an examination of that claimits layers of truth of untruth and the uneasy specters that inhabit modern America.
language: English
title: Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here
publisher: Nightscape Press