The Weight of Ghosts
by Laila Halaby
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Pub Date Sep 05 2023 | Archive Date Jan 09 2024
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Description
The Weight of Ghosts is a circling of grief following the death of the author’s older son when he was 21, a horror that was compounded by her younger son’s drug use, the country’s slow eruption as it dealt with its own brokenness, and reckoning the author had to do regarding her own story. Weight is a lyrical reclaiming and an insistence by the author that she own the rights to her story, which is American flavored with an unreleasing elsewhere. Weight is an immigrant story and a love story. While it is raw and honest and tragic, it is also a hopeful, funny, and original telling that demonstrates the strength of the human spirit, while offering a vocabulary for these most unmanageable human experiences.
Advance Praise
“Equal parts devastating and life-affirming, Laila Halaby's memoir offers wisdom and truth for everyone who has ever moved through a difficult time and shredded a skin to adapt. There are many layers to this story, all tied together by the clear, poetic language that is as musical as the birdsong that accompanies Halaby on her healing walks around Tucson. The Weight of Ghosts is a brave and remarkable achievement.”—Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point and In the Gloaming
“Beautiful and heartbreaking.”—Randa Jarrar, author of Love Is An Ex-Country
"In this raw, poetic, and relentlessly probing narrative, Halaby plumbs the depths of loss while attempting to piece together the “puzzle” of a life born at the crossroads of clashing multiethnic truths and fictions.A fiercely authentic memoir." —Kirkus Reviews
Marketing Plan
Marketing: Pre-pub buzz-building campaign
Online Marketing
· Social media campaign
· Targeted email marketing
· Community outreach
· Text-generated flash fiction campaign ahead of launch
· e-newsletters and websites
· Book club outreach
· Library outreach
· Course adoptions
Publicity:
· Media attention
· Online review and feature attention
· Local author promotion: Tucson, AZ
· Social Media Campaign
· Book & author festival outreach
Social Media:
Twitter: @lailahalaby
Instagram: @laila.and.the.stories
Footprint cities:
Tucson, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, St. Louis, MO, Cape May, NJ, Irbid Jordan, Beirut, Lebanon
Anticipated Book Tour Cities:
Tucson, AZ, Phoenix, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, San Luis Obispo, CA, Richmond, VA, Charlottesville, VA, Georgetown, TX, Austin, TX, Newark – Rutgers, Doha, Qatar (virtual)
Anticipated Review List:
General: Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, NPR (Books, AZ Public Media), LibraryThing, Booklist, Guardian, The Atlantic, Esquire, Library Journal, Los Angeles Times, Book Riot, shereads.com, Amazon, Goodreads, Chicago Tribune Books, Electric Lit, Poets & Writers, Oprah Magazine, Lit Hub, Rumpus, New Yorker, NY Times, Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, podcasts
Arab-related: The Markaz Review, Arab American National Museum, Detroit Free Press, RAWI, Arab Center Washington DC, aljadid.com
Mental Health-Related: National Institute of Mental Health, Tender Hearts, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781636281346 |
| PRICE | $17.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 208 |
