This chapter discusses Holocaust in American Jewish fiction by analyzing the book, The Ghost Writer for two reasons. First, it is the American text that first establishes the Holocaust as a topic of serious philosophical and cultural discussion. Second, it creates one of the dominant tropes that will accompany the Holocaust subject through its transmigrations and transformations in American writing: the idea of the Holocaust as a ghost. The chapter shows how the American authors' texts move from a position of melancholic obsession with the Holocaust to a place of mourning its victims. Among the Holocaust texts considered, Ozick's The Shawl is the best representation of the phenomenon of blocked mourning. The United States of America provides a creative future for American Jews, even if the ghosts of the Holocaust may still continue to haunt the Jewish imagination and, perhaps create post-Holocaust aesthetic that is specifically Jewish American.