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**"Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound." - **San Francisco Chronicle**** **Ghost Lights** stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal - a man baffled by his wife's obsession with her young employer, T., and haunted by the accident that paralyzed his daughter, Casey. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find T. - the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel **How the Dead Dream** - who has vanished in a jungle. On his trip to Central America, Hal embroils himself in a surreal tropical adventure, descending into strange and unpredictable terrain (and an unexpected affair with a beguiling German woman). **Ghost Lights** is Millet at her best - beautifully written, engaging, full of dead-on insights into the heartbreaking devotion of parenthood and the charismatic oddity of human behavior. The book draws us into a darkly humorous, sometimes off-kilter world where bonds of affection remain a reliable magnetic north. **Ghost Lights **is a startling, comic, and surprisingly philosophical story.