BY ALEX DIFRANCESCO
Coming November 1st, 2026!
From the acclaimed author of All-City and Transmutation, Alex DiFrancesco’s newest novel, The Living Copy, is a haunting, haunted Pennsylvania Gothic novel about the price we pay when we refuse to let go of the past.
In an age of hyper-instant gratification and fakery, it’s a rare pleasure to be drawn into a book’s mysteries by such resonant, caring prose. Alex DiFrancesco tells a great ghost story in The Living Copy.
Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Dead Boys Don’t Cry
While exploring an abandoned mining village in Northeastern Pennsylvania’s coal country, Sunny sees the child ghost of her long-dead great-uncle who once drowned there. Her grandmother, who always told her stories of the haunted women in their family, is dying, and the mining company long ruling over their valley offers them a Living Copy in exchange for all the evidence of her grandmother’s life. As the pressure of a bleak valley future and the presence of her grandmother’s AI replica begin to overwhelm her, Sunny starts on a quest to find out if the ghost stories her gram told her are true, or a sign of her family’s mental illness manifesting.
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Cover by Rachel A. Rosen.