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Author Cann, Dana, author.

Title Ghosts of Bergen County / Dana Cann.

Publication Info. Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2016.
[New York] : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F CANN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F CANN, D.    Check Shelf
Edition First US edition.
Description 403 pages ; 20 cm
Summary "Set in New York City and New Jersey on the cusp of the financial crisis, Ghosts of Bergen County is a literary mystery with supernatural elements. Gil Ferko is a private-equity lieutenant who commutes to Manhattan from the New Jersey suburbs. His wife, Mary Beth, has become a shut-in since a hit-and-run accident killed their infant daughter. When Ferko reconnects with Jen Yoder, a former high school classmate, Jen introduces him to heroin. As his dependency on the drug grows, his downward spiral puts his life in danger and his career in jeopardy. Mary Beth has also found an escape-first in prescription drugs that numb her senses, then in the companionship of a mysterious girl who heightens them. A ghost? Mary Beth believes so. And Jen is also haunted. Years ago she witnessed a man she had just met fall from a rooftop. She walked away from the accident and has been haunted since by the question of why she did so. As her quest to rectify that mistake starts to collide with the mystery of the hit-and-run driver who killed Ferko and Mary Beth's daughter, all of the characters are forced to face the fine line between fate and happenstance. Dana Cann's debut novel is a tautly paced and intricately plotted story in which collective burdens manifest into hauntings"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Accidents -- Fiction.
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.
Drug addiction -- Fiction.
Visions -- Fiction.
Bergen County (N.J.) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Accidents. (OCoLC)fst00795270
Drug addiction. (OCoLC)fst01430217
Fate and fatalism. (OCoLC)fst00921813
Visions. (OCoLC)fst01167909
New Jersey -- Bergen County. (OCoLC)fst01206168
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Mystery fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Cann, Dana, author. Ghosts of Bergen County. Portland, Or. : Tin House Books ; New York : Distributed to the trade by WW Norton and Company, 2016 9781941040256 (DLC) 2015048372
ISBN 9781941040270 paperback ; alkaline paper
1941040276 paperback ; alkaline paper
9781941040287 electronic book
1941040284 electronic book
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