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Ghost Composer
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780996382557
Publisher: Chenery Press
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
g h o s t c o m p o s e r
Unfinished compositions.
Hidden recordings.
Melodies no one knew existed.
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When her son dies from an overdose, he leaves behind more than silence.
As his work is discovered, restored, and released to an international audience, he begins to speak again-haunting, intricate, alive with longing. The world meets the artist. His mother must confront the man.
ghost composer is a luminous work of prose poetry that moves through the aftermath of substance-use disorder with unflinching tenderness. It traces the hidden architecture of a life-brilliance threaded with isolation, ambition shadowed by addiction, love complicated by divorce, alternative family structures, the bizarre dysfunction of authority, and the quiet fractures of abandonment. It examines the science and inheritance of dependency, the machinery of the hospital protocol, and the moment when procedure eclipses instinct.
As the mother assembles her son's legacy, she discovers that death does not end a narrative-it alters its key. Through memory, research, and the aching act of reconstruction, she composes a counterpoint to loss: a testament to creative genius, maternal devotion, and the fragile hope that art can carry what the body cannot.
ghost composer is both elegy and resurrection-a symphony of sorrow, secrets, and the possibility of grace.
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