{"product_id":"book-dakc","title":"The Ghost Clause","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another provocative, haunting novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotia-bound ferry, a massive heart attack to blame. Simon's widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Muriel-after revealing that the deed contains a \"ghost clause,\" an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if a recently purchased home turns out to be haunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, Simon finds himself still at home: \"Every waking moment, I'm astonished I have any consciousness … What am I to call myself now, a revenant?\" He spends time replaying his marriage in his own mind, as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while also engaging in occasionally intimate observation of the new homeowners. But soon the crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatens the tenuous domestic equilibrium, as the weight of the case falls to Zachary, a rookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ghost Clause\u003c\/em\u003e is a heartrending, affirming portrait of two marriages-one in its afterlife, one new and erotically charged-and of the Vermont village life that sustains and remakes them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49293564182832,"sku":"BDdakc","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49293564215600,"sku":"ZEdakc","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49293564248368,"sku":"ZMdakc","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dakc-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775878608","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dakc","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}