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When My Ghost Sings by Tara Sidhoo Fraser

A memoir that explores what it's like to piece yourself and your memories back together

A memoir that explores what it's like to piece yourself and your memories back together

An abstract book cover of a silhouette, green vines and pink birds.
(Arsenal)

Tara Sidhoo Fraser is 32 years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost.

Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now, while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost. She meets Jude, who is also contending with their identity, the gap between who they are and who they present to the world. As Jude's transition progresses and they begin testosterone injections, Tara's conflict with Ghost heightens. Ghost's voice becomes stronger, and memories, buried in the body they now share, of hospital visits, old desires, and her ex threaten Tara's new relationship.

She burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing, a farewell letter, and a reclamation of selfhood.(From Arsenal)

Based in Vancouver, Tara Sidhoo Fraser is a writer whose work has been published inAutostraddle and Anathema magazine, among others. When My Ghost Sings is her first book.

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