Guestbook: Ghost Stories

What haunts us? What can't we let go of? A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling.The spirit of a prisoner has attached himself to you, a friend tells her.He sensed the empathy you had for those men.In more than two dozen stories and vignettes accompanied by an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images found photographs, original paintings, Instagram-style portraits Guestbookbeckons us through the glimmering, unsettling evidence that marks our paths through life.

• The best Canadian fiction of 2019
• 28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019
• 15 Canadian books to read this spring
• 9 Canadian short story collections to read during Short Story Month
• Artist and author Leanne Shapton on what objects tell us about the lives of others

Interviews with Leanne Shapton