"In American Ghost, Hannah Nordhaus traces the life, death, and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother Julia, from her childhood in Germany to her years in the American West with her Jewish merchant husband. As she traces the strands of Julia's life, Nordhaus uncovers a larger tale of how a true-life story becomes a ghost story and how difficult it can sometimes be to separate history and myth"--
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ISBN:9780062249210
ISBN:0062249215
Physical Description:320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm print
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers, [2015]
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-320).
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