Original sentence: The second book was Pedro Páramo (1955) a short novel about a man named Juan Preciado who travels to his dying mother's hometown, Comala, to find his father, only to come across a literal ghost town - populated, that is, by spectral figures
Edited sentence: The second book was Pedro Páramo (1955) a short novel about a man named Juan Preciado who travels to his recently deceased mother's hometown, Comala, to find his father, only to come across a literal ghost town - populated, that is, by spectral figures