A Reunion of Ghosts - Tapa dura

A Reunion of Ghosts is a darkly comic, multigenerational meditation on a family curse. [It] balances gallows humor with the seriousness of the sisters history and is a memorable and meticulous exploration of personal responsibility and borrowed guilt. --Los Angeles Times"

A rich portrait of a complicated family, at turns violent and hilarious, shot through with love and death and the scars that reappear generation after generation. --Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers"

Mitchell explores the mixed-blessing bonds of family with wry wit. This original tale is black comedy at its best. --People Book of the Week"

What s so funny about three sisters bent on committing suicide? Plenty, in the imagination of Judith Claire Mitchell . Darkly witty. --Dallas Morning News"

Mitchell s plot, which twists in unexpected but believable ways and opens up just when it seems as if it can only close in, is thoroughly satisfying, but it s the tone of her novel that ability to savor joy and sorrow at the same time that makes it remarkable. --Columbus Dispatch"

Mitchell s triumphant second novel explores love, identity, and the burdens of history in coruscating, darkly comic prose . Moving nimbly through time and balancing her weightier themes with the sharply funny, fiercely unsentimental perspectives of her three protagonists [it] is poignant and pulsing with life force. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

Mitchell s masterful family saga captures the agony and ecstasy (but mostly agony) with deep empathy and profound wit. For the Alters, life has been a seemingly endless series of tragedies; for us, the tragedy is that this stunning novel inevitably comes to an end. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

My favourite novel of the year so far . A literary mash-up of The Virgin Suicides and Grey Gardens. I wouldn t be surprised if Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola are slugging it out for the film rights already. --Sam Baker, Harper's Bazaar online (UK)"

This is a triumphant, beautiful, and devastating novel about coincidences, family, and the sins of our fathers. --Anthony Doerr, New York Times bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See"

Judith Claire Mitchell understands what s at the marrow of our funny bones: that humor lives in darkness, that our families are our curses and our blessings, that great pain can beget great warmth and love. --Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia"