Publisher's Synopsis
Grief, even for the living.
Think about that paralysing feeling you get in public when you see, or you think you see a past loved one in a crowd of people. Where all perception of time is halted, followed by a rush and fear of how to deal with the situation at hand. A longingness for closure that was never achieved. Homesick Ghosts are the ghosts of those who have left our lives, and the subsequent grief we carry for them.... Scars left by the ghosts of lovers, friends, and even family. Who do you think of first? After a diagnosis of Irlen's Dyslexia, Ethan ÓFaoláin marks their writing as an evocation structured by feeling and flow; following pulsing veins and auras which fall between words, often taking the form of concretisms. Seperated into five chapters, Homesick Ghosts celebrates the presence of ghost stories and hauntings as an analogous part of the grief process: 'Carte Cado', 'Sacrilege: Effigy', 'House, the', 'Cold War, the', and 'Exorcisms' all explore themes of love and psyche amidst a romanticisation of the human experience. For readers who enjoyed The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, and Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, may these words stir within you feelings you did not yet have words for.
