Summer Ghost

About

Three teenagers meet at an abandoned airfield on the last night of summer to summon a ghost — and she appears. But the ghost of a young woman who took her own life isn't frightening. She's lonely, confused, and still working out why she died. Over one long night, the living and the dead compare notes on the difficulty of existing. Otsuichi writes adolescent loneliness with a gentleness that makes it feel neither cute nor tragic — just real. The supernatural premise is a delivery mechanism for conversations that living people find almost impossible to have. Summer Ghost is a story about the thin, strange comfort of discovering that someone else — even someone no longer alive — understands exactly what you mean.