A Reunion of Ghosts - Tapa blanda

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"

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

Dark but comedic. The wit of the three sisters alone will inspire you as much as the warming weather outside. --Buzzfeed, "16 Awesome New Books To Read This Spring""

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)"

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)"

For the Alter sisters, living with the guilt of the generations, there is only one way out . This novel is a carefully crafted, thought-provoking examination of history past and present as seen through the eyes of a complex yet humble family. --Booklist"

A clever, modern tale that hearkens back to a host of unusual, lively memorable characters. Darkly humorous. --Library Journal"

Judith Claire Mitchell s splendidly dark and comic novel A Reunion of Ghosts. . . is a very funny book but it is also tender, sombre and thought-provoking. --Financial Times"

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"

"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 Prizewinner and inventor of mustard gas"--