{"product_id":"the-ghost-clause-9780358305620","title":"The Ghost Clause","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award finalist Howard Norman delivers another \"provocative . . . haunting\"* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e *Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon's widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel--after revealing that the deed contains a \"ghost clause,\" an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In fact, Simon finds himself still at home: \"Every waking moment, I'm astonished I have any consciousness . . . What am I to call myself now, a revenant?\" He spends time replaying his marriage in his own mind, as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while also engaging in occasionally intimate observation of the new homeowners. But soon the crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatens the tenuous domestic equilibrium, as the weight of the case falls to Zachary, a rookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Clause\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartrending, affirming portrait of two marriages--one in its afterlife, one new and erotically charged--and of the Vermont village life that sustains and remakes them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780358305620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Howard Norman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636513173660,"sku":"9780358305620","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6233532f-c55d-4dcf-bd9e-4dcc1715f669.jpg?v=1603842176","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ghost-clause-9780358305620","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}