The Inhabited World

Part psychological drama, part mystery, part modern ghost story, The Inhabited World is a deeply affecting novel of love, loss, and longing. Evan Molloy has been dead for nearly ten years when the mysterious, fragile Maureen moves into the bungalow near Puget Sound where he once lived. Caught between this world and the next, Evan cannot remember the events that led to his death, but in Maureen’s presence he begins to recall his life more clearly. As Maureen tries valiantly to restart her life after a recently ended love affair, she unknowingly offers her otherworldly housemate a sort of redemption he never could have predicted.

Evan remains undetectable to the world of the living

A voyeuristic ghost examines his life and his reasons for ending it in this intriguing but slight psychological drama from Long (The Falling Boy). Evan Malloy has haunted his Seattle-area home since his suicide in 1992, but it isn't until the summer of 2002, when single 30-something Maureen Keniston moves in, that Evan discovers the purpose of his restless afterlife. As Maureen tries to end a two-year affair with a married doctor, Evan reflects on his own infidelities and failed marriage. Despite the one-sided relationship between the haunter and haunted

About the Author

DAVID LONG is the author of Blue Spruce, The Falling Boy, and The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Story, and numerous other publications, and has earned him an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Rosenthal Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and many other honors.

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