THE YEAR OF PAST THINGS
A New Orleans Ghost Story
M.A. Harper | Author
- $24.95 hardcover | October 2003
- 320 pages
- 1-58818-069-7
- Fiction
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The savviest ghost who ever haunted New Orleans—revealed!
the book
Chef Phil Randazzo, owner of the trendy Tasso Restaurant in New Orleans is being haunted. And not even his James Beard Award can save him from A.P. Savoie, a well-known Cajun musician who was killed in a tragic car accident three years earlier. Randazzo is getting the idea that his recent marriage to Michelle, Savoie’s widow, has not been blessed by Savoie.
Acclaimed author M.A. Harper has created a contemporary spook with a lot of imagination. Strange events are taking place in the house Phil and Michelle share with her children by Savoie, Nicole, six and Cam, fifteen. The cat can walk through locked doors and Savoie appears at will, haunting everyday objects. One night he makes love to Michelle through the jets of her Jacuzzi. And this ghost knows technology—he can inhabit computer games and TV sets. Phil and Michelle dream, but not of each other. Phil dreams of his own death and Michelle dreams Savoie calls to warn her that Phil is in mortal danger. The honeymoon is over.
Savoie’s presence becomes stronger and stronger and the couple asks for help—psychics, exorcists and even Anne Rice are consulted. The psychic’s admonition, "Beware of a red truck," holds no meaning until Phil is almost killed by one and the replay of his dream of his death almost comes true—but does not. In a plot twist so clever only Harper could devise, the savviest ghost who ever haunted New Orleans is revealed.
the author
M.A. Harper is the author of the acclaimed novels For the Love of Robert E. Lee and The Worst Day of My Life, So Far. She lives in New Orleans.
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