Janis Owens’ AMERICAN GHOST set in contemporary Florida and inspired by a historic local lynching, in which a the daughter of a preacher from a family distrustful of outsiders meets and falls in love with a crusading Jewish grad student in anthropology from Miami who arrives to do an ethnic study of the region and unwittingly sets in motion troubles that reach far back in time, exposing long buried secrets that ultimately need to be set right to Whitney Frick at Scribner by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.(NA)
