Book description
Cathy Ulrich's debut short story collection, GHOSTS OF YOU, seeks out the names of the lost and finds the person behind the sensationalism. It examines some of the most common tropes in mystery and crime storytelling, in which the narrative always begins with the body of yet another murdered woman.…
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1 author picked Ghosts of You as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
More than any other book here, Cathy Ulrich’s flash fiction collection epitomises the “linked story” concept in terms of form and theme (as opposed to plot).
Each short piece is addressed to “you”, and “you” are a woman who has been murdered. We may learn little or nothing concrete about the dead character each story addresses, but the absence of that stolen life leaves an outline of what’s been lost, a haunting negative image of the life she might otherwise have lived.
What results is a moving, subtle illustration of the humanity of the absent “you”.
From Dale's list on little stories that link to tell big stories.
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