A reunion of ghosts
Subtitle: a novel
By: Judith Claire Mitchell
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780062355881
Subjects: Sisters; Jewish families; Suicide; Fiction
Description: "In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired in part by the troubled life of Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of mustard gas"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-382).