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Glyph : A Novel.
It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all starts again 30 years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister. 'Glyph' is a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.
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- ISBN: 9780735249097
- Physical Description: 272 pages.
- Publisher: Canada : Penguin Canada, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.
Ghosts don't exist.
They don't. End of.
Story, however.
It is haunting.
Everything tells it.
It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Â
Is it imaginary? Is it real?
Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom.Â
What to do? She phones her sister.
In a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if weâre attending to the history thatâs made us and to the history weâre making. Â
A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This anti-war novel, Ali Smithâs most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.
