| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
5 audio discs (5 hr., 7 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
050700 |
| Description |
digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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audio file rdaft |
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CD audio |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Performer |
Read by William Demeritt. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, this extraordinary debut signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction. |
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"In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina, nineteen-year-old Ham escaps New Orleans with his only valued possession: a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him, and the curiosity of it has grown into a kind of comfort. When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home, he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face: Is Miss Pearl still alive? Ham travels from Atlanta to rural Alabama, and from one young woman to another, as he evades the devastation that awaits him in New Orleans. Catching sight of a freedom he's never known, he must reclaim his body and mind from the spirit who watches over him, guides him, and seizes possession of him." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Christian saints -- Fiction.
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Spirit possession -- Fiction.
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Foster parents -- Fiction.
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Fiction.
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Christian saints. (OCoLC)fst00859491
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Foster parents. (OCoLC)fst00933230
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Spirit possession. (OCoLC)fst01130054
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Hurricane Katrina (2005) (OCoLC)fst01755264
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Psychological fiction.
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| Added Author |
DeMeritt, William, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781666534863 |
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1666534862 |
| Standard No. |
9781666534863 |
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