Ghost Songs: A Memoir [Paperback]

This memoir of survival is even more about reinvention than reflecting on the past.Harrowing yet beautiful, [Dubbed a literary Maeve Binchy by an LJ reviewer for her affecting, lyrical fiction (e.g.,?Book groups will find much to discuss [...] in thisThisIn her elegiac first memoir, Regina McBride delves deep into the psychospiritual explanations for a haunting, less concerned with whether or not specters are real than with why some see them in the first place.In Regina McBride's[McBride's] journey toward recovery takes her from New York to the desert of New Mexico and finally to the shores of Ireland, where she is able to reconcile the events that happened to her and to her parents. The magnitude of the authors grief is at times overwhelming; theres an unerring sense of distress and disorder. By the end of the book, weve pieced together her lifeI felt an odd, poignant sense of calm with her when, in the final pages, she sits in a caf? in Dublin.As a child Regina McBride's life was shattered several times over as the adults around her disappeared. Now in glittering, vivid prose she pieces that life together again and allows the reader to follow her in an extraordinary account of love, tragedy, and recovery.Regina McBrides soul-stirring memoir?Its a wonder to me that after reading this book of such intense pain and deep sorrow that I feltand know Ill continue to feelpeace and hope.?Regina?McBride?has written a beautiful memoir in which?ghostsindividual and compoundcan, like the living, be transformed from that which we fear to that which we might accept and love.In?A rare?ghost?story that isn't fiction.A searingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir about a girl who begins to see her parents' ghosts after their tragic deaths.