Unseen City

Name: Unseen City
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Amy Shearn
ISBN: 9781662030925

Author: Amy Shearn

Narrator: Kimberly Wetherell, Karen Chilton

Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/29/2020

Categories: Fiction, Occult & Supernatural

Synopsis

In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? Its a question Meg Rhys doesnt think shes asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead sisters ghost in her New York City apartment. Then she becomes obsessed with an intriguing library patron and the haunted house hes trying to research. The house has its own story to tell too, of love and war, of racisms fallout and the ghost story that is gentrification, and of Brooklyn before it was Brooklyn. What follows is an exploration of what home is, how we live with loss, who belongs in the city and to whom the city belongs, and the possibilities and power of love.

About Amy Shearn

Amy Shearn is the author of the critically acclaimed novels How Far Is the Ocean from Here and The Mermaid of Brooklyn. A fiction editor for Joyland Magazine, she earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota, has received a Promise Award grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, has had her writing featured in a wide range of publications, and has participated in several residencies, including at SPACE on Ryder Farm. She currently resides with her two children in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

I have to admit upfront that ghosts and I are strangers. The closest I've come to meeting one was a vision in a dream I had after a friend died. And, when I was about 15 years old, I was walking home from a friend's house and decided to take a shortcut through a cemetery. When I got there, I decided......more

Goodreads review by Judy

The September, 2020 pick of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club was published by an Indie press from my very own city! I loved Unseen City from the first sentence to the last. Meg Rhys, the main character, is a 40 year old woman who self-identifies as a spinster librarian. She likes men and sex but does......more

Goodreads review by Natalka

Loved this book! A gorgeously written love letter to New York City and all of the pasts that haunt it. I couldn't put it down.......more