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description: Every old photo album contains a multitude of mysteriesthe people who came before. Maria Romasco Moores eerie and incandescent novella-in-flash Ghostographs is no exception. Brief crystalline stories combine with vintage photographs to illuminate the hidden terrain of childhood and the pain of growing up all in one small town at the edge of an abyss where the narrator comes of age among family friends and phantoms. Its a place populated with charming and unforgettable characters where housewives send away for mail-order babies and young girls glow on front porches on hot summer nights. Where men get in staring contests with lamps and great aunts live in castles and collect haunted dogs. Where games of hide and seek refuse to end. Its a town full of secrets where the hardships of adulthood threaten to invade the wild and magical domain of children. Haunting and evocative funny and strange the world of Ghostographs may be memory or might just be a trick of the light.Each of these stories is its own ghost: startling uncanny gone. Each one rattles its chains smiles its terrible smile gestures toward the others. I feel like this book was written specifically for me: the me that loves vintage photographs formal constraints hauntings ephemera poetry; the me that loves campfire stories; the me thats still a little scared of the dark. Carmen Maria Machado author of Her Body and Other Parties
language: English
title: Ghostographs: An Album
publisher: Rose Metal Press