When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories Contributor(s): Wallen, Amy E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803296959 ISBN-13: 9780803296954 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017037691 |
Series: American Lives |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 294 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghouls follows Wallen's recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and 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? |