Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Populism and culture warriors exploit this aspect of human psychology, reinforcing the comforting (but ultimately harmful) feeling that any conflict in the world is their fault not ours.ĭouglas Murray.

We are all guilty of this from time to time, rarely more so than on social media, where the world can appear perfectly split into goodies and baddies. The result is an exaggerated sense of one’s own virtue and innocence, but an equally exaggerated sense of the selfishness and corruption of others. Psychoanalysts refer to the process of “splitting”, where the self is unable to cope with its good and bad qualities simultaneously, and so “splits” the bad ones off and attributes them to other people. There is one question that few drivers ever consider: what is my own contribution to this quagmire? Why are there so many cars on the road anyway? Horns begin to honk. Other drivers can be seen cutting in, changing lanes excessively, and getting worked up. From within one’s own car, the absurdity and injustice of the situation is abundantly plain. Since then, Harper’s scratched out a living selling her services to anyone with a checkbook.B eing stuck in a culture war is a bit like being a driver stuck in a traffic jam.

Because for the living it’s always urgent ― even if the dead can wait forever.Īt the age of 15, Harper Connelly was struck by lightning, an event that gave her the ability to find the dead and see how they died. Traveling with her step-brother, Tolliver, as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she’s become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living ― but she’s used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. Acclaimed New York Times Bestselling author Charlaine Harris, the writer of the Sookie Stackhouse series, has joined the Dynamite Entertainment family with the first book of her hit Harper Connelly series, Grave Sight.įor the past five years, readers have been thrilled by the Harper Connelly series which follows a woman who has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people.

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris