I see you so close : a novel

Format:

Book

Title:

I see you so close : a novel

Author:

Dressler, Mylène, 1963- author

ISBN:

9781948924894

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Arcade Publishing, 2020.

Physical Description:

257 pages ; 22 cm

Series title(s):

Last ghost novel ;

Number in series:

Summary:

"Emma Rose Finnis has never made peace with her death . . . or with her ghostly afterlife. Finally free from the mansion she haunted for more than a hundred years, she takes on a new, daring form, one that allows her to pass for living among the citizens of the remote Sierra Nevada town of White Bar. But the town is hiding its own deadly truth, buried in its Gold Rush past. As the sleepy town's secrets come to life, they inevitably bring Emma Rose's past back to haunt her."--Publisher.

Subject(s):

Spirits -- Fiction.

Dead -- Fiction.

Future life -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Ghosts -- Fiction.

Secrets -- Fiction.

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Fiction.

United States -- Sierra Nevada.

Genre:

Holds:

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Summary

The dead and their secrets refuse to stay buried in this thrilling sequel to M. Dressler's award-winning The Last to See Me , for fans of Lauren Oliver and Kazuo Ishiguro

Emma Rose Finnis has never made peace with her death . . . or with her ghostly afterlife. Finally free from the mansion she haunted for more than a hundred years, she takes on a new, daring form, one that allows her to pass for living among the citizens of the remote Sierra Nevada town of White Bar. But the town is hiding its own deadly truth, buried in its Gold Rush past. As the sleepy town's secrets come to life, they inevitably bring Emma Rose's past back to haunt her.

In this second book in M Dressler's Last Ghost Series, Emma Rose must unlock the secrets of the living, the dead, and even of time itself, if she hopes to be more than an endless fugitive and outlast the ghost hunter who relentlessly stalks her.

Author Notes

M Dressler is the author of six novels, including The Last to See Me , book one in her Last Ghost Series, grand prize winner of the Book Pipeline Award and winner of Audiofile Magazine's Earphone Award for Fiction. M Dressler's work has been praised by the New York Times as "splendid" and by Library Journal as the writing of a "natural-born storyteller." She is the critically acclaimed author of novels, novellas, and essays, and her stories and nonfiction have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction , and Lit Hub, among others. Her honors include the North Carolina Artists Fellowship and the Paisano Fellowship in Literature, as well as writing residencies at Hedgebrook and the Carson McCullers Center. She is a professor and current writer-in-residence at Guilford College. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, and in Moab, Utah.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The secrets of a secluded mountain town are revealed in this tense, lyrical sequel to The Last to See Me. Ghost Emma Rose Finnis finds a body to occupy, freeing her to depart the mansion she has haunted for more than 100 years. She ends up in White Bar, a mining town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. While the welcome she receives from the living townspeople is generally warm, the town's ghostly inhabitants whisper to Emma Rose of something dark hidden in the town's past. The living townspeople call in ghost hunter Philip Pratt, the villain from book one, to exterminate the other ghosts trapped in White Bar, leading to a race against time as Emma Rose seeks to uncover the truth of how the town's ghosts came to be and save them from Pratt. Though Dressler's lyricism becomes stilted at times, she masterfully creates a sense of claustrophobia. Emma Rose's self-assurance, fury, and mounting suspicion make her a fierce protagonist. Series fans will savor this taut, lushly told tale of secrets and revenge. (Mar.)

Booklist Review

In the second novel of Dressler's The Last Ghost series, readers are reacquainted with Emma Rose Finnis, an Irish American ghost who never made peace with her death. After escaping ruthless ghost hunter Phillip Pratt in The Last to See Me (2017), Emma Rose arrives aimlessly in White Bar, a former Gold Rush town in the Sierra Nevadas. White Bar is now home to very few and is being tormented by its brutal past. In the 1850s, a schoolhouse of children suspiciously burned; the ghosts of the pupils and their schoolmaster remain. Emma Rose is initially put off by the tension between the town's living and deceased, but she isn't forced to confront the friction until an outsider tips off Phillip Pratt. Again, Emma Rose comes face to face with the notorious "cleaner" of spirits, but this time the fates of a dozen other souls are at stake. Much like its predecessor, Dressler's latest is a captivating page-turner about what defines and divides a community, both in life and in death.