{"product_id":"the-ghost-clause-0358305624","title":"The Ghost Clause","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0358305624\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Norman, Howard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.*Janet Maslin, New York TimesSimon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. Its 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.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.The Ghost Clause 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786166042912,"sku":"NEW0358305624","price":11.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/717a4YHIkIL.jpg?v=1780628832","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-ghost-clause-0358305624","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}