The Weight Of Memory Av Shawn Smucker

"Smucker crafts beautiful sentences and haunting characters that immerse readers in a world where anything is possible but not everything is real. Recommended for fans of Ted Dekker or Tosca Lee."--<b><i>Library Journal<br/></i></b><br/>***<br/><br/>When Paul Elias receives a terminal diagnosis, he leaves his physician''s office in a fog. Only one thing is clear to him: if he is going to die, he must find someone to watch over his granddaughter, Pearl, who has been in his charge since her drug-addicted father disappeared. Paul decides to take her back to Nysa--both the place where he grew up and the place where he lost his beloved wife under strange circumstances forty years earlier.<br/><br/>But when he picks up Pearl from school, the little girl already seems to know of his plans, claiming a woman told her.<br/><br/>In Nysa, Paul reconnects with an old friend but is not prepared for the onslaught of memory. And when Pearl starts vanishing at night and returning with increas