Publisher's Synopsis
In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters - Lady, Vee, and Delph - finalise their plans to end their lives. Their reasons are not their's alone; they are the last in a long line of Alters who have killed themselves. As they gather in the ancestral Upper West Side apartment to close the circle of the Alter curse, an epic story about four generations of one family - inspired in part by the troubled life of German-Jewish Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of chlorine gas - unfolds. 'A Reunion of Ghosts' is a magnificent tale of fate and blood, sin and absolution; partly a memoir of sisters unified by a singular burden, partly an unflinching eulogy of those who have gone before, and above all a profound commentary on the events of the 20th century.
