Æshøna Rhödes
Hardcover
HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $28.99
Publisher: Iron Reverb Press
Published: Oct 5 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
sh na Rhödes is a haunting, time-warped love story told through memory, music, and the quiet persistence of connection.
When Bogie returns to his childhood home on Twin Star Court, he discovers that the past isn't gone-it's waiting for him in the basement, where his best friend, sh na, still seems to live. The room hasn't changed: the records, the bead bracelets, the duct-taped couch. And neither has she. Together, they drift through shared recollections of the 1980s and '90s-the Challenger explosion, the birth of MTV, the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of grunge-remembering what it meant to grow up side by side in a world constantly redefining itself.
But as their conversations deepen, the boundary between memory and haunting begins to blur. sh na can recall every moment of their youth with uncanny clarity-but nothing beyond it. And Bogie, bound to their Basement of Truth, begins to realize that his own presence there may not be as solid as it seems.
Told through intertwining timelines, sh na Rhödes unfolds as a mosaic of love, loss, nostalgia, and acceptance. Newspaper clippings, album reviews, and local color from the fictional Ocean State Tribune fill in the spaces between the living and the dead, grounding the ethereal in the deeply human.
Set in Roger Williamstown, Rhode Island-a place that hums with music, memory, and ghosts-this novel is both a meditation on grief and an elegy for the generation that grew up between analog and digital, innocence and loss.
At its heart, sh na Rhödes is a story about two souls who refused to drift apart-even when the universe demanded it-and who ultimately find that some connections don't end. They evolve.
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