Friends, another incredible review for the Gold Medal winning: The Ghost of Atlanta!
Friends, another incredible review for the Gold Medal
winning: The Ghost of Atlanta!
5.0 out of 5 stars Julius Thompson's The Ghost of Atlanta is Haunting
and Inspiring
Reviewed in the United States
on March 23, 2022
Coming of age stories are often uneven in quality and pace but when done
well like this one, they can give the reader an entirely different perspective
on life. We often read books and see movies to escape reality but Thompson's novel
gives us both a harsh reality and a glimpse of real hope.
Property disputes involving
family land might not sound like good drama but when the future of a family's
survival and prosperity is at stake--it makes for very compelling reading.
In The Ghost of Atlanta, Andy Michael Pilgrim faces demons from his youth that
haunted his life.
The best part of this novel is
Thompson's powerful use of description that takes the reader to dangerous
places where drug deals and shootings are part of everyday life. It makes one
wonder what life would be like from a completely different and potentially
traumatizing new perspective.
Segregation, drug addiction, and
gun violence are the real ghosts of this story.
As someone from the south, I
appreciated the folklore and appearances of ghosts and local legends that bring
character to local towns and big cities.
The inclusion of the newspaper
plot revolving around the Atlanta Defender brought back fond memories of being
a newspaper reporter when I was young although I rarely got to write about
matters of life and death with our local news team. This leads up to a chilling
and profound conclusion. This is not on a spaceship, this is not set in the
zombie apocalypse, this tale is set in stone-cold reality--one that we find ourselves
immersed in on every page until the end.
The character of Andy is left deeply haunted and so is the reader.
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