Young Georgie Finch's world is turned upside down in 1976 when his father Jerry, a junior high school science teacher, becomes the first civilian to travel in space and decides to stay on the moon, contacting Georgie regularly by phone.
After Florida Klansmen abduct and kill a nineteen-year-old African-American citrus picker in the spring of 1951, Reesa McMahon finds the world she knows and the people she loves forever changed by the tragedy.
A fictional narrative in which Fran Benedetto, a woman who was abused by her husband, examines the reasons why she stayed in her marriage for so long, and ponders whether leaving was the right thing to do.
With the support of her two best friends, sixteen-year-old Kathleen tries to balance her summer volunteer work at the hospital with her responsibilities caring for her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and her attraction to a handsome boy.
In the early 1960s eight-year-old Kiki leaves Cuba to escape the Castro regime and tries to adjust in two very different foster homes in Florida, first with a poor family in the Everglades and then with a wealthy family in Miami.
"A compelling, deeply rewarding novel from a unique southern storyteller, American Ghost is Janis Owens' richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians"--Provided by publisher.
