A little madness, a little kindness, makes for happiness.
What would it be like to see yourself dead? That's what happens to Maggie when her identical twin sister, Michelle, commits suicide. Keeping their childhood promise to each other, Maggie begins her journey to Moon,Alaska, to scatter her sister's ashes over the ocean. Once there, prevented by adverse weather from carrying out her mission, Maggie begins to plan her own suicide so that she and her sister can be together again. Forever.
"Chasing the Ferryman is darkly comic and visually rich."
"Horner's novel about what happens when twins are separated is wickedly delicious. The flashback chapters were colorfully told, like that old spin art game that had to run on electricity and sprayed paint in crazy patterns, very original and memorable."
"Compassionate yet darkly humorous, poignant and empathetic, lyrical and loving. Horner's engagingly written novel takes us into a world where one plus one does not equal two, where one minus one equals less than zero, where twins - identical though they may be - cannot live the same life. A world where sometimes you discover that the Boatman, no matter how you beg him, simply refuses to ferry you from life to death."
"Mystical, vivid, sad, and beautifully strange..."
"The subject of this story is certainly heavy, but it is balanced by a bittersweet humor, and a thoughtful examination of the unique relationship between twins - a relationship paralleled by themes of creativity and madness, as well as tradition versus innovation. This is an amazing first novel. Complex, carefully considered, well developed, funny, and touching."
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