A 2013 "Books of the Year" -Times Literary Supplement & John Ashbery
"6 Great Books to Read"-Readers Digest
"19 Books You Shouldn't Have Overlooked in 2013"-Slate
"An impressionistic portrait of literary subjectivity...revealing the opportunities for pleasure and refuge available to the inveterate reader." - Lambda Literary
"A masterful act of literary ventriloquism." - Huffington Post Books
Inspired by the task of unpacking his library, the narrator returns to writing an autobiographical novel about the sudden appearance his son, Joe, who at age nine shows up on...

A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 2013 BOOKS OF THE YEAR FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION

"An Honest Ghost is brilliantly conceived and brilliantly performed." - Adam Phillips, critic and author of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Inspired by the task of unpacking his library, the narrator returns to writing an autobiographical novel about the sudden appearance his son, Joe, who at age nine shows up on the narrator's doorstep for the first time. The narrator, unnerved by the prospect of sharing his life with his extremely precocious child, is nonetheless moved by Joe's...