Guestbook: Ghost Stories

Guestbook by Miranda July is a mystical territory that explores the glimmering, unsettling things that haunt us in the midst of life, combining stories, vignettes, and an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images to transform the traditional ghost story into something else entirely.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 26 March 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Leanne Shapton has created a mystical territory - a performance, an exhibition, a guestbook - in which I felt the ghost within myself; the thing that will outlive me. A fearless and exquisite book, Guestbook explores the glimmering, unsettling things that haunt us in the midst of life, combining stories, vignettes, and an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images - found photographs, original paintings, Instagram-style portraits - to transform the traditional ghost story into something else entirely.

Shapton has a way of making books entirely new, surreal, and uncanny. Guestbook contains ghost stories for a world of images and captions, in which the ghosts are all of us, and our strange time. Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?, said of Guestbook, "It's a book about ghosts, but it's also a book about being alive. It's a book about the things we carry with us, the things we leave behind, and the things that haunt us."

Weight: 662g
Dimension: 215 x 169 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781846144936