Some histories don’t fall behind, they cling. In Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye, a young girl’s memories of another life draw a psychologist, her family, and a new generation into a mystery connecting past and present. In Melissa Faliveno’s Hemlock, a woman returns to the Wisconsin woods where her mother vanished and finds herself confronting an inheritance that may be psychological, supernatural, or something more difficult to name. In Robyn Gigl’s All We Hide, a trans detective begins digging into the murder of a local trans woman and high school classmate, a case seemingly connected to the disappearance of her mother. Across very different forms of storytelling, these writers ask what happens when the past refuses to remain past, Moderated by book critic Hamilton Cain (This Boy’s Faith: Notes from a Southern Baptist Upbringing).
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