With her husband and her two daughters, Salerni lives in Pennsylvania, where she is at work on her novel. Readers should find Verity’s persistent and risky attempts to dredge up the past compelling, and also relate to her equally significant search for where her heart lies. We Hear the Dead The Caged Graves (2013) Eleanor, Alice, and the Roosevelt Ghosts Jadie in Five Dimensions Dianne K Salerni Books Overview High Spirits In mid nineteenth century America, spirits knock and tables tip for Maggie and Kate Fox, two teenage sisters who convince people they can talk to the dead with their mysterious rapping noises. We Hear the Dead is her first full-length novel. Salerni (We Hear the Dead) constructs an absorbing, atmospheric, and dense work of historical fiction. She collects stories full of gaps and superstitions, but Verity will have to uncover the truth alone (with help from her mother’s journal). Verity is further unsettled when she finds two graves (one belonging to her mother) imprisoned in iron cages outside the cemetery. Meanwhile, the romantic letters and gifts sent by Nate seem to have come from a different man altogether-he appears mainly interested in acquiring her father’s land. She’s jarred by the differences between the village and her previous life in Worchester, Mass., but even more so by an uneasy relationship with her taciturn father, who sent her away as a child after her mother’s sudden death. In 1867, 17-year-old Verity Boone returns to her hometown of Catawissa, Pa., to live with her father and meet, for the first time, her fiancé, Nathaniel McClure.
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