{"product_id":"9781935439509","title":"Ghosting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A novelist of daring creativity and passion.\"—Edmund White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dying drug kingpin enslaved to the memory of his dead wife; a young woman torn between a promising future and the hardscrabble world she grew up in; a mother willing to do anything to fuel her addiction to pills; and her youngest son, searching for the truth behind his older brother's disappearance, are just some of the unforgettable characters that populate \u003ci\u003eGhosting\u003c\/i\u003e, Kirby Gann's lush and lyrical novel of family and community, and the ties that can both bond and betray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleece Skaggs has disappeared, along with drug dealer Lawrence Gruel's reefer harvest. Deciding that the best way to discover what happened to his older brother is to take his place as a drug runner for Gruel, James Cole plunges into a dark underworld of drugs, violence, and long hidden family secrets, where discovering what happened to his brother could cost him his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA genre-subverting literary mystery told from the alternating viewpoint of different characters, \u003ci\u003eGhosting\u003c\/i\u003e is both a simple quest for the truth—what exactly happened to Fleece Skaggs?—and a complex consideration of human frailty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirby Gann \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Barbarian Parade \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOur Napoleon in Rags \u003c\/i\u003e(Ig Publishing, 2005). His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eWitness \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Witness\u003c\/i\u003e, The Crescent Review, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Louisville Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSoutheast Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Indiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals. Gann is managing editor at Sarabande Books and teaches in the brief-residency MFA in writing program at Spalding University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ig Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141360074992,"sku":"9781935439509","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935439509_p0.jpg?v=1763656646","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935439509","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}