Ghost fish : a novel
"Alison has done the cliché. Mired in loneliness and grief, mourning the loss of her sister, who was washed out to sea, she's moved into a dusty, cramped apartment on New York's Lower East Side, which she's paying for by working as a restaurant hostess. She doesn't need originality; she just needs to be alive. So why is it that she feels she isn't TRULY living? Until one day, when she rounds the corner and sees a shape in the air -- a ghost. And...