Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Ghost Family
    The Ghost Family
    The Ghost Family
    Ebook214 pages4 hours

    The Ghost Family

    By Myanne Shelley

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The Ghost Family is a quiet, contemplative portrait of a California family. Laurel and Mion are cousins who grew up close as sisters. But there is an unknown third branch of the family. Their half cousin Jane was raised in communes with her hippie mom. When she stumbles across letters that trace back to her married grandfather’s affair, a generations old secret begins to unravel.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMyanne Shelley
    Release dateJan 6, 2011
    ISBN9781458008572
    The Ghost Family
    Author

    Myanne Shelley

    Recently retired San Francisco nonprofit worker, SFSPCA cat volunteer, pickleball player, boxer, writer.

    Read more from Myanne Shelley

    Related to The Ghost Family

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Killed For Walking A Dog

      Sep 21, 2022

      Killed For Walking A Dog
      16 min read

    • Article

      Elise Juska on Finally Learning the True Story of Her Namesake

      Jun 12, 2019

      The novelist on her grandfather's very unusual relationship arrangement—a 52-year engagement—and how it led, in a roundabout way, to her own name. The post Elise Juska on Finally Learning the True Story of Her Namesake appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Searching for Complexity: Motherhood in Fiction

      Jul 19, 2017

      I’m on a quest to surround myself with complex mothers. I’m going to seek them in novels, in stories I can enter during months when my own complexity seems to shine brighter. The women I’ll turn to can’t hear me when I talk back to them, but they can

      7 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Jul 12, 2023

      Great Read
      3 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Aug 19, 2022

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 17, 2023

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Secrets That Won’t Rest: A family therapist uncovers the cost of keeping silent.

      Oct 17, 2013

      As someone who has studied and practiced family therapy for 37 years, I am repeatedly struck by a secret’s impact on a family. With the best intentions, parents often strive to protect a child from a shameful or painful event that happened in the pas

      5 min read

    • Article

      Home News

      Aug 9, 2023

      This slow-burning drama starts with a punch – aknock on the door early in the morning, two police officers demanding to see the husband of our wide-eyed narrator Ellen. Gordon O’Hanlon is still in bed, Ellen says, but agrees to go and wake him. He’s

      1 min read

    • Article

      Lemon Trees

      Apr 10, 2024

      When her son walked into their townhouse, Zach’s darkb-rown curls shielded his eyes. It wasn’t the first time Stephanie thought the deflection looked intentional, but she hadn’t yet found evidence that her son’s aloofness hid anything significant. Sh

      16 min read

    • Article

      Night Visions

      Sep 10, 2022

      Night Visions
      6 min read

    • Article

      The New Girlfriend

      Jul 7, 2022

      The New Girlfriend
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Last Waylon Party

      Jan 18, 2019

      The Last Waylon Party
      14 min read

    • Article

      All You Need Is LOVE

      Jun 16, 2021

      All You Need Is LOVE
      10 min read

    • Article

      THE Reading room

      Nov 4, 2020

      THE Reading room
      4 min read

    • Article

      Dirty John: The Real Thing

      Oct 2, 2017

      LOS ANGELES - Their first date was at Houston's, a restaurant in Irvine where he opened the door for her and put her napkin on her lap. Candles flickered along the polished-mahogany bar; jazz drifted from speakers; conversation purred. Debra Newell h

      10 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Aug 19, 2019

      Kya is just five when she watches her mother, carrying a packed suitcase and wearing her fake alligator high-heeled shoes, walk out on her alcoholic husband, her four children and the shack they all live in. One by one the remaining children follow s

      4 min read

    • Article

      You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down

      Apr 20, 2022

      You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down
      8 min read

    • Article

      Happy Endings

      Sep 1, 2023

      Happy Endings
      5 min read

    • Article

      All You Need Is LOVE

      Jun 16, 2021

      All You Need Is LOVE
      10 min read

    • Article

      Nights When Nothing Happened

      Nov 6, 2020

      Nights When Nothing Happened
      9 min read

    • Article

      Amazing Grace: Reading Kelly J. Beard’s ‘An Imperfect Rapture’

      Sep 30, 2019

      For another memoirist, it would be easy to resort to a rhetoric of absolutes, but Beard’s elegant and direct prose teems with complexity and nuance. The post Amazing Grace: Reading Kelly J. Beard’s ‘An Imperfect Rapture’ appeared first on The Million

      5 min read

    • Article

      Cricket Ceague

      Apr 1, 2019

      Penelope Berkeley, age 9 Mars Hill, NC Night had fallen, and Luna awoke from where she had been sleeping in a cornfield. She moved steadily through the stalks with barely a sound, keeping her eyes on the glittering glass rooftop of the greenhouse in

      7 min read

    • Article

      Wounds That Won’t Heal

      Oct 30, 2017

      Wounds That Won’t Heal
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Ghost Family

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Ghost Family - Myanne Shelley

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1