A reunion of ghosts

By Judith Claire Mitchell

Subjects: Fiction, sagas, Fiction, Jewish families, Suicide, Sisters, fiction, FICTION / Sagas, Sisters, FICTION / Jewish, FICTION / Literary, Jews, fiction

Description: "In the vein of such classic family sagas as Fall on Your Knees, A Reunion of Ghosts is the confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves on the very last day of the 20th century; in it they tell the story of a family haunted by suicide ever since the sisters' great-grandfather, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, developed the first poison gas used in warfare and also the lethal agent used in the Third Reich's gas chambers--inspired in part by the troubled life of Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of mustard gas"--