THE GHOST CLAUSE

National 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
(*Janet Maslin, New York Times)

A HEARTRENDING, AFFIRMING PORTRAIT OF TWO MARRIAGES – one new, and one in its afterlife – National Book Award finalist Howard Norman's latest novel, set in a small Vermont village, follows a man who suddenly dies but whose spirit remains in the farmhouse he'd share with his wife of many years, though now sold to a newlywed couple. While the ghost observes the comings and goings of the new homeowners, he reflects on his own marriage and previous life in the house as well, until a crisis arrives when a local eleven year-old child goes missing, threatening to undo any domestic equilibrium for the house and the community.

HOWARD NORMAN is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His novels THE NORTHERN LIGHTS and THE BIRD ARTIST were both nominated for a National Book Award. He is also author of MY DARLING DETECTIVE, THE MUSEUM GUARD, THE HAUNTING OF L, WHAT IS LEFT THE DAUGHTER, I HATE TO LEAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE, and NEXT LIFE MIGHT BE KINDER.