The Extra Large Medium
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0802170323 / Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat, May 2007
A young woman who has been able to communicate with the restless dead since she was a child, Annie Coville is disturbed by the disappearance of her beloved husband, Evan Bees, especially when he fails to make a ghostly appearance, by her search for her mi ssing father, and by her struggle with the questions linked to her enigmatic gift.
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In this delightful debut novel, Helen Slavin takes the ghost story into a new dimension. Ever since she was a child, Annie Colville has been talking to the dead. She knows they’re dead because for some reason they’re always dressed in chocolate brown. But Annie’s grown up now, and things are getting serious. Especially after she falls for and marries Evan Bees. It’s hard enough to lose someone you love; but what if you know they could come back to you? And they just . . . don’t? During her long wait for her missing husband to come back to her, in chocolate brown or not, Annie searches through her mother’s vast collection of lovers for the other missing man in her life — her father — and struggles with the questions her gift asks of her. Quirky, irreverent, moving and a little bit spooky, The Extra Large Medium will charm you completely — even as it’s raising the hairs on the back of your neck.
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