Reunion of Ghosts (Mitchell)

Book Reviews
What’s so funny about three sisters bent on committing suicide? Plenty, in the imagination of Judith Claire Mitchell…. Darkly witty.
Dallas Morning News


Mitchell’s plot, which twists in unexpected but believable ways and opens up just when it seems as it the same time—that makes it remarkable.
Columbus Dispatch


Mitchell explores the mixed-blessing bonds of family with wry wit. This original tale is black comedy at its best (Book of the Week).
People


My favourite novel of the year so far…. A literary mash-up of The Virgin Suicides and Grey Gardens. I wouldn’t be surprised if Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola are slugging it out for the film rights already.
Sam Baker - Harper's Bazaar.com (UK)


(Starred review.) [T]riumphant...darkly comic prose..... Lady, Delph, and Vee Alter decide to kill themselves..... Moving nimbly through time and balancing her weightier themes with the sharply funny, fiercely unsentimental perspectives...Mitchell’s fictional suicide note is poignant and pulsing with life force.
Publishers Weekly


Lady, Vee, and Delph Alter...have given themselves the "deadline" of late December 1999 to commit suicide. Their reasons are based mostly on that the Alters have miserable luck, stretching back to their great-grandfather.... [T]his serious study of a very odd family has its darkly humorous side. —Andrea Tarr, Corona P.L., CA
Library Journal


For the Alter sisters, living with the guilt of the generations, there is only one way out…. This novel is a carefully crafted, thought-provoking examination of history past and present as seen through the eyes of a complex yet humble family.
Booklist


(Starred review.) [A] memoir that's meant to double as their collective suicide note may not sound like a hilarious premise for a novel, but Mitchell's masterful family saga is as funny as it is aching.... Mitchell's dark comedy captures the agony and ecstasy...with deep empathy and profound wit.... [S]tunning.
Kirkus Reviews