"A brother who courageously seeks, fifty years afterwards, the truth about his sister's suicide. A dead woman demanding that the secret crimes of history and armament that led to her destruction be told. And, finally, a Writer devoted to memory and compassion, haunted by how Nazi Germany, dictatorial Chile, the first nuclear bomb and the perennial suffering of the Palestinian people echo in today's broken America, unafraid to reckon with the past and warn us about the future and deliver a dirge for the dead who refuse to be silenced. The result of this gathering of voices? A heart-breaking, heart-enhancing ghost story of whirlwind proportions, an incantatory, ethical thriller masterfully rendered by one of our great contemporary visionaries." Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden