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Spirit of the past: Sacramneto native Shawna Yang Ryan grounds her first novel in the town of Locke.
Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA)
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May 6, 2007
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Byline: Dixie Reid
May 6--LOCKE-This really is a "ghost town." One of the elders has seen a filmy Chinese man sitting on a bench along Main Street and an apparition who draws in the dirt on moonlight summer nights.
So it was perfect that Shawna Yang Ryan, then 23, came here to work on her first novel, a ghost story.
She took an apartment above Main Street for a month in the late summer of 2000. She never saw spirits but heard inexplicable footsteps in a vacant space downstairs that was, long ago, a gambling den.
Seven years later, Ryan ...
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