Ghost Summer, Tananarive Due
Ghost Summer, Tananarive Due
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Ghost Summer
Stories

Author: Tananarive Due

Narrator: Tananarive Due, Robin Miles, Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 13 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/13/2021

Synopsis

Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories, Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to both haunt and delight.

About Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is a former features writer and columnist for the Miami Herald. She has written two highly acclaimed novels, The Between and My Soul to Keep. Ms. Due makes her home in Longview, Washington.

About Robin Miles

Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic’s Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors’ unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.

About Janina Edwards

Janina Edwards, an Earphone Award–winning narrator, is a graduate of the acting program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sadie on February 12, 2021

Short story collections are the best way to experience a “new to you” author for the first time. GHOST SUMMER by Tananarive Due makes this statement unequivocally true. Seasoned horror fiction fans and those who are timidly testing the waters will find Due’s unique brand of storytelling capable of de......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on December 20, 2015

GRACETOWN  The Lake  - 3.5 Summer  - 3.5 Ghost Summer  - 5 THE KNOWING  Free Jim’s Mine - 4 The Knowing - 4 Like Daughter - 4 Aftermoon - 4 Trial Day - 4 CARRIERS Patient Zero - 4 Danger Word (with Steven Barnes) - 4 Removal Order  - 4 Herd Immunity  - 4 Carriers  – 3.5 VANISHINGS Señora Suerte (2006) – 3.5 Vanishing......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 18, 2021

Brilliant collection and the title novella is a showstopper.......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on July 21, 2023

I liked that these stories both felt creepy and conveyed deeper messages about race, grief and loss, and parenting. I think fans of the horror genre and short stories may enjoy this collection. Unfortunately I wanted a bit more depth and emotional resonance from the characters and their characteriza......more

Goodreads review by Althea on September 21, 2015

Contents i.GRACETOWN **** The Lake (2011) Gracetown is a rural Florida location, just over the Georgia border; the setting for the first three stories in this collection. It's a hot and sticky, sleepy town - with a chilling dark undercurrent of supernatural influences - which boil to the surface in the......more

Quotes

“In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award–winner Due uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present…[and] to explore how humans embrace transformations in ourselves and one another, even when the result is monstrous.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The author herself narrates several [stories] and is joined for the rest by practiced narrators Robin Miles and Janina Edwards…Miles and Edwards, in particular, read at a pace just leisurely enough to increase the suspense. At the end of each work, a note is included from the author with background information and her inspiration for the story.” AudioFile

Awards

  • Los Angeles Times Best Book
  • NAACP Image Award
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