THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD (Sophie Klahr, Corey Zeller)
“Edgy and gripping… episodic miniatures of loss and absence, first and last things, the guises of love… Sequencing is essential in a work like this—Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller have the prose equivalent of perfect pitch.”
– Sven Birkerts, author of The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
THERE IS ONLY ONE
GHOST IN THE WORLD
by Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller
FC2 | October 17, 2023
$16.95 | 124 Pages | Paperback
ISBN: 978-1573662031
Winner of the 2022 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, as selected by Marream Krollos, THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD (October 2023) is a kaleidoscopic investigation into the loneliness of modern American life. Co-authored by Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller, this book collages fragmented meditations in multiple voices—as if catching glimpses of life from a moving vehicle, or searching faulty memories in a family photo album.
Klahr and Zeller’s intimate and visceral narratives explore the truths and lies that families tell one another, contemplating the raw nerves of gender and identity, the lessons of heartbreak, and the legacies of art. This daring, disruptive prose acts as a tender witness, revealing the best and the worst in all of us as it unspools through incompletable Venn diagrams of spiritual longings, addiction and climate change, shootings and stolen x-rays, the lyrics of disco and earworm etymologies, fake news and 99-cent stores, last meals and unearthed mummies. THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD is a book about what happened just before you woke up, and what happened just after.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
SOPHIE KLAHR and COREY ZELLER have been writing together for over a decade, and have had their collaborative work published in Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Shallow Ends, Four Way Review, Passages North, and elsewhere. Klahr is also the author of Meet Me Here at Dawn (2016, YesYes Books) and Two Open Doors in a Field (2023, Backwaters Press). Zeller is the author of Man vs. Sky (2013, YesYes Books) and You and Other Pieces (2015, Civil Coping Mechanisms).