In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost into future scenarios that seem all too real and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. SUMMARY: Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. By the end of our read-along we all came to essentially the same conclusion: this collection of stories is excellent and now we need to read everything else author Tananarive Due has ever written! I started reading Ghost Summer Stories because I was looking for more horror by black authors, and because it was being read by a number of people whose opinions I trust. “No one warned her about summers in Gracetown…”
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