Journeys Through Heartbreak
Tango with Ghosts follows a 72-year-old Canadian who escapes to Buenos Aires only to encounter the ghost of a poet and tango dancer, drawing him into a haunting mystery rooted in his apartment’s secrets and Argentina’s buried history. How did you research this difficult period of Argentine history?
Most of my research was done using Google; however, there are many people who had family and friends who were taken away. I did many interviews with family members and relied on their stories.
What was the most challenging aspect of writing Reginald’s emotional journey?
Reginald represents a major part of society that journeys through heartbreak and loss. Many of these people don’t recover; they live in the past and feel there is no real future, whether it is divorce, death, or depression.
If readers remember one idea from Tango with Ghosts, what would you like it to be?
Get off the comfortable chair of self-pity, acknowledge nothing will last forever, and embrace the moment.
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Buenos Aires, 2006. He came to hide. Behind him, a shattered marriage and a sold business in Vancouver. Ahead, a year of solitude in a grand, unsettling apartment on Calle Talcahuano.
He meant to write. He avoided the city’s midnight milongas, because he knew too well what lives inside the tango: the unbearable art of holding what you are bound to lose. But some impulses can’t be buried.
Then he discovers a thirty-year-old manuscript by Alejandro Vargas, a writer disappeared from this very building during the military dictatorship. Vargas’s final meditations on dance, death, and the courage to stay become a mirror.
Pulled into the slipstream of the apartment’s past, he is drawn back into the embrace, toward a woman haunted by her own secrets, and toward a truth the city has kept hidden for three decades.
Some cities bury their dead. This one dances with them.
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