{"product_id":"when-we-were-ghouls-a-memoir-of-ghost-stories-paperback","title":"When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir of Ghost Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmy Wallen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Amy E. Wallen's southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. \u003cem\u003eWhen We Were Ghouls\u003c\/em\u003e follows Wallen's recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author's mother posits, \"hideous people?\" Or is Wallen's memory out of focus?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a \"good\" human, \u003cem\u003eWhen We Were Ghouls\u003c\/em\u003e links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy E. Wallen\u003c\/b\u003e is associate director at the New York State Summer Writers Institute and teaches creative writing at the University of California, San Diego Extension. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eMoonPies and Movie Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Time\u003c\/i\u003es bestseller. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761340317984,"sku":"9780803296954","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bf01438233bf53355d55c2530e8ae415.webp?v=1780204988","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/when-we-were-ghouls-a-memoir-of-ghost-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}