Everything you need to understand or teach When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash.
When Ghosts Come Home, by Wiley Cash, is a somber historical crime novel set over four days in and around Oak Island, North Carolina, in 1984. The third-person narrative follows Winston, a sheriff fighting to keep his job and solve a murder, his daughter Colleen, who is escaping a troubled marriage, and Jay, the murder victim’s young brother-in-law. In its depiction of racial prejudice and escalating violence, this novel tackles themes of justice and power, as well as grief, family ties and the passage of time.
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