Ghost wall by sarah moss6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Moss’ ( Signs for Lost Children, 2017, etc.) unusual premise allows her to explore issues of class, sexuality, capitalism, and xenophobia in fewer than 150 pages. As the college students in the course get to know Silvie and get a closer look at her family dynamics-her tempestuous father, her cowed mom-Silvie is forced to both question her secret life and protect it from outsiders before the re-enactment goes too far. A local professor has invited Silvie’s family to tag along on a summer archaeology course that will attempt to replicate the daily lives of the Iron Age Northumbrians. ![]() A violent, racist man, he reveres Iron Age Britain as a symbol of purity, believing it represents a culture before it was sullied by invaders from other lands. But his interest isn’t especially benign. He’s taught Silvie how the ancient people would have lived-which roots can be eaten, which moors can be usefully foraged-and how they would have died, found preserved in bogs with ropes around their necks, hands, and feet. A bus driver by trade, her dad is an amateur expert in pre-Roman British history. Seventeen-year-old Silvie’s father has an unusual hobby. ![]() A teenager and her working-class family join a group of experimental archaeologists and must face the sinister connections between their own circumstances and the brutal lives of the Iron Age inhabitants of Britain. ![]()
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