The Gone Dead
The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz is a reprint edition published by HarperCollins Publishers on March 24, 2020. This novel follows Billie James as she returns to her childhood home in the Mississippi Delta, where she uncovers secrets surrounding her father’s life and death. Inheriting little more than a shack, Billie confronts her past and the unsettling memories of her father’s unexpected death when she was just four years old.
As Billie navigates her father’s secluded home, she encounters the McGee family, whose history is intertwined with her own since the days of slavery. The narrative deepens as she learns of a rumor suggesting she went missing on the day of her father’s death, intensifying the mystery surrounding her family’s past. The Gone Dead explores themes of race, justice, and memory, revealing the hidden wounds of both a family and a nation. This edition contains 304 pages and is presented in English.
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An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death
Billie James’ inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day–and she hasn’t been back to the South since.
Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father’s home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been entangled with hers since the days of slavery. As Billie encounters the locals, she hears a strange rumor: that she herself went missing on the day her father died. As the mystery intensifies, she finds out that this forgotten piece of her past could put her in danger.
Inventive, gritty, and openhearted, The Gone Dead is an astonishing debut novel about race, justice, and memory that lays bare the long-concealed wounds of a family and a country.
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