{"product_id":"american-ghost-a-familys-extraordinary-history-on-the-desert-frontier-9780062249203","title":"American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hannah Nordhaus\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Posada--\"place of rest\"--was once a grand Santa Fe mansion. It belonged to Abraham and Julia Staab, who emigrated from Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. After they died, the house became a hotel. And in the 1970s, the hotel acquired a resident ghost--a sad, dark-eyed woman in a long gown. Strange things began to happen there: vases moved, glasses flew, blankets were ripped from beds. Julia Staab died in 1896--but her ghost, they say, lives on.\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAmerican Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e, Julia's great-great-granddaughter, Hannah Nordhaus, traces her ancestor's transfiguration from nineteenth-century Jewish bride to modern phantom. Family diaries, photographs, and newspaper clippings take her on a riveting journey through three hundred years of German history and the American immigrant experience. With the help of historians, genealogists, family members, and ghost hunters, she weaves a masterful, moving story of fin-de-siècle Europe and pioneer life, villains and visionaries, medicine and spiritualism, imagination and truth, exploring how lives become legends, and what those legends tell us about who we are.","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408296796311,"sku":"9780062249203","price":1538.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780062249203.webp?v=1767149158","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/american-ghost-a-familys-extraordinary-history-on-the-desert-frontier-9780062249203","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}