Justina Ireland's Ophie's Ghosts
Not sure how I missed that Justina Ireland wrote a book set in 1920s Pittsburgh, but you bet I grabbed it from the library as soon as I found out! Things actually start down in Georgia, where the titular Ophelia is awakened by her father and warned to grab her mother and run--only it turns out that it's actually her father's ghost, and the lynch mob that killed him is on their way to burn down the house. (The death and fire both happen off-page.) So now she and her mother are off to relatives in Pittsburgh, working for a rich old white lady, still dealing with racism, but now also dealing with all the ghosts Ophie can see. And eventually, solving a murder. The pacing was a little slow in the middle, but things pick up in a big way toward the end, and I loved the little tribute to the Hill District. Satisfying and lovely wrap-up. A-.
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