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Ghost Music

by An Yu
Vera Chok
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For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. When she married, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.
Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels start to show up on the doorstep and Song Yan's dreams become troubling and claustrophobic. Striking out
alone through the winter city, she finds herself pulled into the ancient hutongs to confront the source of her unease. In a still, silent room in a timeless house, can she find the notes she needs to make sense of all the pain and beauty in her life?
Evocative, magical and endlessly surprising, Ghost Music is a captivating journey through memory, expression and self-discovery towards the shimmer of new beginnings.

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  • Release date

    January 10, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705087268
      • File size: 171946 KB
      • Duration: 05:58:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Vera Chok narrates this eerie novel full of dreams of talking mushrooms and heartbroken musicians. Song Yan lives with her husband and mother-in-law in her apartment in Beijing. Everyone tells her she should be happy, but instead she exists in a fog of loneliness. Song used to dream of becoming a concert pianist; now she just teaches young students. But when a package of rare mushrooms arrives, it sets off a series of events that will change her life forever. Chok's performance conveys all of Song's heartbreak over her music and lost career. As Song tries to figure out who is sending the mushrooms, Chok's voice skillfully evokes the rising gloom and desperation that Song experiences throughout the story. K.D.W. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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