The Great Wherever
Shannon Sanders · Literary Fiction
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NAMED ONE OF 2026'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS BY: ESQUIRE | LITERARY HUB | BOOKPAGE | DEBUTIFUL 'An epic and deeply human story' PATRICK RYAN, author of the international bestseller Buckyeye 'A gift of a book' VANESSA CHAN, author of the international bestseller The Storm We Made Okay, but the afterlife? It's nothing like it looks in the movies . . . A year after the death of her father, Aubrey Lamb receives a phone call from a distant cousin. She has inherited a share of a farm, down in the sun-streaked plains of Tennessee. Seeking distraction, and a way to erase a mounting pile of debt, Aubrey makes her way South to meet a family she barely knows. Watching her arrival with great interest, and wry scrutiny, are four ghosts: Aubrey's ancestors, the keepers (and spillers) of the farm's secrets. As Aubrey gets to know her living family, another story unfolds in parallel: the history of the land, beginning with its purchase by her great-grandfather, one of the first Black landowners in the c
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