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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAmy E. Wallen is associate director at the New York State Summer Writers Institute and teaches creative writing at the University of California, San Diego Extension. Her first novel, MoonPies and Movie S.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she hadjust turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a stateof constant upheaval. When We Were Ghoulsfollows Wallen's recollections of her familywho, like ghosts, cameand wentand slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates Are they, as the author's mother posits, "hideous people " Or is Wallen's memory out of focus In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confrontingwhat it means to be a "good" human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is astory about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.…