Books like I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
In 2016, Finn, a suspended history teacher visiting his dying brother in a New York hospice, ends up on a strange road trip through the South with his ex-girlfriend Lily, who has recently died.
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Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Thirteen-year-old Jojo, his toddler sister, and their drug-addicted mother drive across Mississippi to collect his white father from Parchman prison, and the ghost of a boy who died there rides home with them.
Swamplandia!
The teenage daughter of a failing Florida alligator-wrestling theme park family sets off through the Everglades to rescue her sister.
Hell of a Book
A Black author on a book tour and a boy fleeing violence alternate chapters in a novel about race, storytelling, and whose pain gets to be seen.
Mostly Dead Things
After her father's death, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy shop in Tampa, while her mother starts posing the stuffed animals in explicit tableaux and her brother falls apart.
Lincoln in the Bardo
In February 1862, President Lincoln visits the crypt of his eleven-year-old son Willie, and a chorus of ghosts who refuse to admit they are dead watch the boy linger in the bardo.
Death Valley
With her father in intensive care after an accident, a novelist from Los Angeles checks into a Best Western in Death Valley to hike alone, and the desert begins to open up in ways she cannot explain.
Nevada
Maria Griffiths, a trans woman working at a New York bookstore, is dumped by her girlfriend, takes her car and drives west, where in a Nevada Walmart she meets James, a young man she suspects is trans and doesn't know it yet.
Beyond Black
Alison Hart, a professional medium working the dead-end towns around London's orbital motorway, hires a brittle assistant named Colette, while the spirit guides of her childhood refuse to leave her alone.
No One Is Talking About This
A poet's life is split between a pre-internet childhood and the social media hellscape of the present, told in fragments that capture the vertigo of the timeline.
Damned
Madison Spencer, the thirteen-year-old daughter of film stars, wakes up in Hell, which turns out to be run like a corrupt, bureaucratic high school, and sets out to make the best of it.
Heart-Shaped Box
Ageing rock star Judas Coyne collects grim curiosities, so when an online auction offers a dead man's suit along with his ghost, he buys it, and the ghost that arrives in a heart-shaped box turns out to have a personal reason for coming.