Jonah Sees Ghosts

by Mark J. Sullivan III

Book Overview

"Written with insight and compassion, this is a stunning look at the addictive personality of an adolescent boy in an alcoholic family." --Library Journal, Starred Review

"In Jonah Sees Ghosts, Mark Sullivan takes a 'lover's quarrel with the world' into the beyond. Beset with the visions of a Bosch, and the honesty of a Henry Miller, his young protagonist faces the twenty-first century in bewilderment. Jonah, with the heart of a transcendentalist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888451041
• ISBN13: 9781888451047
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Insightful book on the life of a dysfunctional family

This was a very well written story with believable and imperfect characters. It is the story of Jonah who's alcoholic father died on his sixth birthday. Jonah is now fifteen and started to see ghost everywhere. Neither him nor his mother have dealt emotionally with the loss of the father. Jonah is antisocial and strange but only retreats more into himself the stranger his life becomes around him, until he finds himself escaping through his dreams. This story is funny and touching, it is written in a very unique style. It is highly recommended.