American Ghost
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"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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I wanted to like this book, and liked the parts of it that got to the point - the actual story of Julia Staab and the rest of her family, even the exploration of her ghost as a phenomenon. But that was not very much of the book, most of it was wild speculation that felt based on absolutely nothing, and long sections talking to mediums which led nowhere. The writing is atrocious.
