American ghost
"A compelling, deeply rewarding novel from a unique southern storyteller, American Ghost is Janis Owens' richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians"--
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The book didn't really click for me until about a third of the way through, when the “small-town violence” alluded to in the cover copy happens and the mystery surrounding it deepens. That is the heart of this book for me, not the love story between Sam and Jolie. The book didn't even really need that. This is a book about how people and communities carry the past with them, how it shapes them, how they try to bury it or escape it or protect it or atone for it. The author portrays the South and racial tensions very well, but some of the characters' actions don't always ring true.