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National 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. *Janet Maslin, New York Times Simon Inescort is no longer bodily present in his marriage. It's been several months since he keeled over the rail of a Nova Scotiabound ferry, amassive heart attack to blame.Simons widow, Lorca Pell, has sold their farmhouse to newlyweds Zachary and Murielafter revealingthat the deed contains a ';ghost clause,' an actual legal clause, not unheard of in Vermont, allowing for reimbursement if arecently purchased home turns out to be haunted. In fact, Simonfinds himself still at home: ';Every waking moment, Im astonished I have any consciousness . . . What am I to call myself now, a revenant?' He spendstime replaying his marriagein his own mind,as if in poignant reel-to-reel, while alsoengaging in occasionally intimateobservation of the new homeowners. But soonthe crisis of a missing child, a local eleven-year-old, threatensthetenuous domesticequilibrium, as theweight of the case falls to Zachary, arookie private detective with the Green Mountain Agency.The Ghost Clause is a heartrending, affirmingportrait of two marriagesone in its afterlife, one new and erotically chargedand of the Vermont village life that sustains and remakes them.