Time dilates for young children, Shannon Sanders writes in The Great Wherever, and also for ghosts. Ghosts can reclaim time in which to grieve, gossip and watch their earthly relatives in horror, pity and love. Sometimes the dead can bridge silences in family lineage too. If this sounds fanciful, let me convince you otherwise. Ghosts have always been more than mysterious spectres in African American culture and in this novel a plot of land connects the living and the dead in surreal and unexpec