Sandra and Alice are two ghosts inhabiting the Walker house at Coral River. The Walkers - Caroline, Minna, Amy, and Trenton, have returned after the death the estranged patriarch, Richard. We learn the history of the ghosts and the family. Through them we learn that the whole process of life is separation, a long, slow process that can only be cured by reabsorption into everything - ultimate death. Trenton has decided upon suicide, and wonders "what was the point of trying at all, if in the end you were no better, no longer, no more real than a bathroom sink and a rust stain?" In this riveting ghost story, we have a missing girl, a philandering husband, a suicidal teen, an alcoholic mother, a sex-obsessed sister/daughter, and 2/3 very unhappy ghosts. This psychological tale deals with the very essence of life and life after death.
"That's what everyone wanted, in the end: to be part of something bigger."
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