Into the Attic
Examining the past is one thing, but what happens when the past examines us?
As writer Caroline Crane confronts her tragic past amidst the mountains of boxes in her attic, the ghosts of her parents and first husband appear. They had died in a car accident nearly twenty years earlier when her two children were small. Caroline has many things she wants to tell the ghosts, but they have come with strong opinions and stunning revelations. And it is Thanksgiving, which Caroline and her second husband are hosting. Soon the guests will arrive: her children, other family, and friends. What happens next is extraordinary.
This often-comic novel explores the fallibility of memory, a reimagining of the afterlife, and how love that endures can help us move on.
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Ellen Sherman is the author of two previous novels, Monkeys on the Bed and Just the Facts, which was a finalist for several awards, including the 2016 National Indie Excellence Awards (General Fiction) and 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (General Fiction and Second Novel). Her essays have appeared in Writer's Digest, Manhattan Book Review, New Jersey Newsroom, Family, and Parent Guide. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has worked as a journalist, teacher, editor, and training coordinator for volunteer literacy tutors.