Dusty Waters: A Ghost Story
Dusty Waters is a ghost story, a family saga, the history of a haunted house, and a biography of a folksinger. Dusty's friend, Katharine, has volunteered to help her write the official biography, but there is one piece of her life that will not be part of the biography, she can see ghosts; Dusty's ancestral home Tanglewood is filled with them. This inherited sight adds a vexing dimension to her psyche that becomes an uneasy burden.
The Story Behind This Book
The story behind the story of Dusty Waters: A Ghost Story goes like this...I've always made up stories, the kind that I would tell my friends, and say "cross my heart, hope to die", well, one night a very long time ago, my friends and I were hiding out on the porch of an empty old house, we were telling ghost stories, and I told a whopper of one about this particular house about a young woman's suicide and her illegitimate newborn baby that was buried in the basement, and I ended the tall tale with the final..."and to this day, you can still hear the baby's cries down there..." well, I couldn't have timed the ending better because just then a baby let rip a cry from the neighbors house and we all ran screaming into the night. Some of Dusty Waters comes from those stories that I told, some of it came along from recent history, and the ghosts of the past.