| International Standard Book Number |
9781668043356
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668043351
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| Personal Name |
Benefield, Eva, author.
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| Title Statement |
Ghost girl : surviving the Black Swan Murder : a memoir / Eva Benefield.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York : Gallery Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 256 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction: Dead Dad Jokes -- Chapter 1: The Low Country -- Chapter 2: The Ghosts Enter the Chat -- Chapter 3: Paperwhites Are the Friendliest Flower -- Chapter 4: Frozen Blueberries -- Chapter 5: I Know Why the Redfish Are Smiling -- Chapter 6: Split Ends -- Chapter 7: Manic Panic -- Chapter 8: No, Eva, There Is No Santa Claus -- Chapter 9: Queen of a Thousand Thongs -- Chapter 10: Cock It and Pull It -- Chapter 11: Jesus Camp -- Chapter 12: The Sugar Plum Fairy Is for Suckers -- Chapter 13: Things You Should Never Do, Just to Be on the Safe Side -- Chapter 14: Bun on the Run -- Chapter 15: Last Dance -- Chapter 16: Scary Monsters -- Chapter 17: Merry Christmas, Motherfuckers -- Chapter 18: The World Was My Oyster, and Then I Got Shucked -- Chapter 19: Love and Death in the Time of COVID -- Chapter 20: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea -- Chapter 21: The Bullshit Remains -- Chapter 22: When Frogs Fly -- Chapter 23: When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Ghost Cowboy -- Chapter 24: Slow Dancing in the Courthouse -- Chapter 26: Two Tears in a Bucket, Motherfuck It -- Epilogue: Cypress Trees Believe in God -- Acknowledgments.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Eva was still in high school when her mother died suddenly of a heart attack. Within a year, her father marries Ashley Byers, a twenty-four-year-old former bikini model he has only known for a few weeks. "She looked sharp," Eva says of her strange new stepmother, "like if you touched her you might bleed." After a few months, Ashley convinces her new husband to open an international ballet company in Charleston, South Carolina. But soon the money runs out and Ashley shoots and kills Eva's father. The crime was dubbed in the news media as "The Black Swan Murder." Eva, now orphaned and in college, is suddenly "awash in tabloid gore" and must figure out how to make rent and survive. Reeling from the sudden loss of both her parents and the looming criminal trial of her stepmother, Eva begins to navigate the confusing world of adulthood all alone. "You don't have a choice about a lot of stuff, especially when you're a girl," Eva says. "The things that changed my life were not my choices. They were other people's decisions, people who really should have known better." From losing friends who can't understand the nature of her new reality, to processing her grief and anger as she slowly pulls herself together and begins to chart a new path forward, Eva confronts the triumphs and challenges of a truly incredible situation head on in this unforgettable memoir."-- Amazon.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Florida.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder victims' families United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Children of murder victims United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Trials (Murder)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Father and child.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Stepmothers.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
True crime stories.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
True crime stories.
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