A buried act of violence forces a family to confront the truths they never spoke aloud.
A multiracial family returns to Mobile, Alabama, where a decades-old act of racial violence continues to shape what nobody in the family will say out loud. They arrive from the North with distance, money, and the quiet protections of privilege. In Mobile, those protections begin to thin.
At the center is eighteen-year-old Elijah, navigating the contradictions of identity, inheritance, and rage. As he pushes deeper into what happened, what begins as a search for understanding starts to slip beyond his control.
Told through multiple voices, Ghost Gun is a debut novel about family, inheritance, violence, and the distance between remembering and reckoning.
