Glyph

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Ghosts do not exist. Petra insists on it, even as everything around her feels haunted. The story begins when she and her little sister, Patch, hear a horrifying tale from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. What they conjure sits uneasily between imagination and reality, and the question of what is real does not loosen its hold.

Thirty years later it begins again. Petra and Patch are estranged now, and Petra finds a phantom horse in her bedroom, kicking the furniture to pieces. She does the only thing she can think to do. She phones her sister.

Moving in a chiaroscuro dance through an increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks how we attend to the history that has made us, and to the history we are making. It turns to what imagination is for, and to what might be rekindled in a broken, brutal, divided time: care, solidarity, resistance, openness. A standalone novel, it is family to Gliff.