Love, loss, and the ghosts we carry -

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     Love, loss, and the ghosts we carry -

     “Now, in my eight-second year, my allegiance is to ghosts.” — Mark Helprin So the unnamed 82-year-old narrator declares early on in Mark Helprin’s novel “Elegy in Blue” (Harry N. Abrams, 2026, 256 pages). He then proceeds to blend his present with his past, a life turned upside down by the murder of his beloved wife, the destruction by arson of nearly all that he owned, his wealth wiped away by a vengeful set of crazed parents and a legal system gone awry, and the challenge of battling an evil...