Ghostly Lover

The Ghostly Lover tracks the shifting currents of the emotions, thoughts, and observations of it's characters with terrific precision and care. Elizabeth Hardwick is so sensitive to the curves of our moods, how a frown or a passing reminiscence can send us spinning elsewhere. We are so immersed in the minds and hearts of the characters that it is hard to wake up from the book and not experience the world as they would. An upper middle-class Kentucky family, lost in themselves, the young daughter desparate to break from the strictures of niceties and surface-skimming chit chat, but with no model to learn from save the black maid, whom she idolizes for her brutality and rawness. This book had a huge effect on me. It inspired me to observe with the same sensitivity my own heart and others around me...as well as the tiny details of the world around us. If you read this, please write me and tell me what you thought. I can't stop thinking about it.