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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
Clean prose throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Gentle adult romance; nothing explicit
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Grief and loss handled with warmth; ghosts as a metaphor for people stuck in their past
What this book is about
Zoey's late mother left her a condo in a beautiful building on Mallow Island, South Carolina — a place called the Dellawisp, named for the tiny turquoise birds that inhabit it. When Zoey arrives to claim her inheritance, she finds a community of people, each carrying their own grief, their own secrets, and their own reasons for being there. Some of them are not entirely alive. Sarah Addison Allen's magical realism novel is warm, tender, and quietly enchanting — a story about the ways grief makes us ghostly and the community that can call us back.
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