{"product_id":"the-ghost-clause","title":"The Ghost Clause","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Award finalist Howard Norman delivers another “provocative . . . haunting”* novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e *Janet Maslin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It’s been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia–bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon's widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel—after revealing that the deed contains a “ghost clause,” an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In fact, Simon finds himself still at home: “Every waking moment, I'm astonished I have any consciousness . . . What am I to call myself now, a revenant?” He spends time replaying his marriage in his own mind, as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while also engaging in occasionally intimate observation of the new homeowners. But soon the crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatens the tenuous domestic equilibrium, as the weight of the case falls to Zachary, a rookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Clause\u003c\/em\u003e is a heartrending, affirming portrait of two marriages—one in its afterlife, one new and erotically charged—and of the Vermont village life that sustains and remakes them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howard Norman","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53157001462051,"sku":"9780358305620","price":12.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780358305620.jpg?v=1741169785","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/the-ghost-clause","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}