Ghostographs : an album

Author

Mar Romasco Moore

Call Number

• FICTION ROMA (CEN)

Publication Information

Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2018.

Physical Description

80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"Fiction and Vintage Photographs; Hybrid work; novella-in-flash; text-image work. This book is composed of short stories that each have a vintage black and white photograph across from them that the short story refers to. The stories are connected (have recurring setting and characters) to make a longer novella-in-short-stories. The photos are key to the book. Jacket copy: Every old photo album contains a multitude of mysteries--the people who came before. Maria Romasco Moore's eerie and incandescent novella-in-flash Ghostographs is no exception. Brief, crystalline stories combine with vintage photographs to illuminate the hidden terrain of childhood and the pain of growing up, all in one small town at the edge of an abyss where the narrator comes of age among family, friends, and phantoms. It's a place populated with charming and unforgettable characters, where housewives send away for mail-order babies and young girls glow on front porches on hot summer nights. Where men get in staring contests with lamps and great aunts live in castles and collect haunted dogs. Where games of hide and seek refuse to end. It's a town full of secrets, where the hardships of adulthood threaten to invade the wild and magical domain of children. Haunting and evocative, funny and strange, the world of Ghostographs may be memory or might just be a trick of the light"--

Contents

• The woman across the way
• The bridge over the abyss
• We
• Hide and seek
• Tess
• Lewis
• Rhoda
• The troublemakers
• Hannah
• My great aunts
• Dolls, or tiny dogs
• The castle
• God in the garden
• Different kinds of light
• Aunt beryl
• The river
• My father
• Mabel
• The man and the cornstalk
• My mother and my sister
• Tess unlit
• Aunt Millie
• The man and the lamp
• Hide and seek
• The waterfall
• The boat
• The woman across the river
• The thaw
• From two towns away
• Hide and seek
• Time
• Light
• Ghost town.