Product Description In 1922, Aaron Burke attended his own funeral. Hanging around in the graveyard after everyone had left, it began to dawn on him...he had become a ghost! He found a mentor in Marnie, a straight-shooting former prostitute inhabiting the same cemetery, and learned the basics of ghosthood, like flying and moving physical objects. Over the years he watched everyone he had known and loved cross over to the other side--including Marnie and his own children--but he remained, stuck in a lonely and seemingly meaningless limbo.
Fast-forward to 1991. On a visit to Aaron's now-abandoned graveyard, author Linda Alice Dewey felt his presence, found a way to communicate with him, and embarked on a quest to help him cross over. With Linda's guidance, Aaron was able to understand the lessons of what happened while he was alive--being kidnapped and taken from Ireland to America at age four, overcoming obstacle after obstacle as he grew up, finding happiness with the woman he loved, only to have it all fall apart--and was finally reunited with his loved ones on the other side. Years later, he returned to Linda in spirit to dictate his story, Aaron's Crossing, a moving account of personal growth and life lessons that provides a surprising and ultimately reassuring answer to the universal question, "What will happen when I die?"
Very interesting readOctober 22, 2008 The narrator of story is unusual. He's a ghost. And this is the story his channeler or interpreter received from him after she picked him up at an old cemetery.
Dewey calls the book "creative nonfiction," because his story was filtered through her and thus colored by her own interpretation of what she was hearing. But that doesn't interfere with the absorbing tale of a young man who died in 1922 and the story of his life, starting with his father kidnapping him as a four-year-old in Ireland and stealing him away to America. For a long time, Aaron didn't know his father had killed a man at a pub and was using him as a safety measure so they could get passage across the ocean.
Aaron's life with his father was brutal. The man never spoke except to order him around, never talked to him with affection--never talked much at all, apparently. And his deep daily silence and manipulative nature would eventually scar his son's personality and hobble his own chances at life. Aaron finally escaped his father and found a woman he could love; but when she died in mourning for a lost child, he abandoned their other young children and struck out, wanting "to be left alone." That would turn on him after he died in a farm accident, making him unable to pass to a higher plane until he learned to trust another human being. The "crossing" part of the title doesn't refer to a bridge or a physical crossing, but to a spirit's ability to leave the earthly plane.
Written in a smooth and flowing style, the book is hard to put down. I read it until I finished it, absorbed in everything that happened. It's a mark of truly good writing when the author captures you from page one, and regardless of how you may feel about ghosts or channelers, you will find this a fascinating read.
Armchair Interviews says: A good book and a compelling story.
TRUE ghost story? Nah. Don't think so.May 19, 2008 6 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you are a fan of Ghost Hunters, skip this book. If you like a nice fiction story with a touch of the paranormal, buy this book. It's an interesting story but, IMO, it's just a STORY. I can't suspend my disbelief to believe a ghost dictated the entire story of his life and death and after-death to the author. (And I REALLY had a hard time believing that this "ghost" had to learn some of the exact same things that Patrick Swayze had to learn in the movie, "Ghost".) Total ghostly phenomena in here accounted for about 2% of the book as a whole. It's a pleasant enough read but it won't go on the shelf with my paranormal books.
Aaron's CrossingApril 29, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A compassionate tale of a lost soul who finds hope through friendship.
A life theme for the living?
Thank you,Ms Dewy, for showing us the theme lives on even after death.
P. C. Bacon Brooklyn, MI
Validation of what happens after death!April 28, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Aaron's Crossing confirmed all that I had learned about the here after. I was able to better understand the things I knew and I found the missing pieces to the puzzle of information that I had not learned yet. This is the most accurate book on life after death I have ever read!
Not even good fictionApril 25, 2008 2 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I bought this book I expected it to be a true story. This wasn't even good fiction. I'm sorry I wasted my money. There was nothing about this book that made me believe it was a true or accurate account of a ghost or spirit.
