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American ghoul / Michelle McGill-Vargas.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.C48235 A68 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGill-Vargas, Michelle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vampires--Fiction.
- Vampires.
- Freed persons--Fiction.
- Freed persons.
- Plantations--Georgia--Fiction.
- Plantations.
- Racism--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Georgia--19th century--Fiction.
- Georgia.
- Indiana--19th century--Fiction.
- Indiana.
- Horror.
- Genre:
- Historical romance.
- Horror fiction
- Historical fiction
- Vampire fiction
- Novels
- Fiction
- Horror fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Vampire fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2024.
- Summary:
- "You can't kill someone who's already dead. That's what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after--allegedly--killing her mistress, Simone Arceneau. But how could Simone be dead when she was taking callers just a few minutes before? And why was her house always so dark? Lavinia, a recently freed slave, met Simone, a recently undead vampire, by chance on a plantation in post-Civil War Georgia. With nothing remaining for either woman in the South, the two form a fast friendship and head north. However, Lavinia quickly learns that teaming up with this white woman may be more than she bargained for. Simone is reckless and impulsive--which would've been bad enough on its own, but when combined with her particular diet, Lavinia finds herself in way over her head. As she is forced to repeatedly compromise her morals and struggles to make lasting human connections, Lavinia begins to wonder, is she truly free or has she merely exchanged one form of enslavement for another? As bodies start to pile up in the small Indiana town they've settled in, people start to take a second look at the two newcomers, and Simone and Lavinia's relationship is stretched to its breaking point ..." - (dust jacket).
- Notes:
- "A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary--with a dash of buddy comedy--in an innovative twist on the vampire genre." -- (Page 4 of cover).
- ISBN:
- 9798212224567
- OCLC:
- 1422141704
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