Ghost Of Binding:Paperback from Jane Igharo

from Jane Igharo

they were more than just cousins

but to do so she must place her trust in a paper bird

In this "engrossing" (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back

this is his community and he grinds day in and day out to heal them

Ghost Of Binding:Paperback from Jane IgharoGhost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory, physical voids, and her family captured around an empty space. Ghost Of was