“Karen Brown deftly manages to make the occult ordinary and the strange familiar in this surprising and suspenseful novel.” Lily Tuck, National Book Award–winning author
Description
Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date is gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift.
On the family homestead where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in the flyers seeking information about a young woman who has disappeared―until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha’s apartment window, wearing a winter coat, her hair coated with ice.
Praise
“Karen Brown deftly manages to make the occult ordinary and the strange familiar in this surprising and suspenseful novel.” Lily Tuck, National Book Award–winning author
“Suspensefully ambiguous…The twists aren’t so much shocking as harrowing confirmations of what the story’s been trying to say against our narrator’s will the whole time.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
“A master of intrigue, Brown has crafted a haunting mystery that will relentlessly push readers until the very end.” Booklist (starred review)
“Arresting, unsettling, and beautiful…Brown enchants and haunts by making the reader question every voice, every truth.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Gripping…Brown’s novel is a riveting page-turner.” Publishers Weekly
Details
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Release Day | Feb 6, 2017 |
| Release Date | February 7, 2017 |
| Release Date Machine | 1486425600 |
| Imprint | Blackstone Publishing |
| Provider | Blackstone Publishing |
| Categories | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Psychological, Literary Fiction, Supernatural, Fiction - All, Fiction - Adult |
Author Bio
Karen Brown is the author of several works, including Little Sinners and Other Stories, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the John Gardner Book Award, and was named a Best Book of 2012 by Publishers Weekly. Her Pins and Needles: Stories was the recipient of AWP’s Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has been featured in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, the New York Times, and Good Housekeeping. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of South Florida.
Narrator Bio
Megan Tusing is an actress, known for The Beginning and the End, The Share, and Odd Jobs. She has a bachelor’s degree in theatre from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Overview
Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date is gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift.
On the family homestead where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in the flyers seeking information about a young woman who has disappeared―until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha’s apartment window, wearing a winter coat, her hair coated with ice.
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