A New York Times Editors\' Choice * A Paris Review Staff Pick * An Indie Next Pick Hypnotic and glowing. -- The New Yorker. -- Chicago Tribune Gripping. -- Esquire An American gothic fever dream.
Where is she taking them? And who--or what--is hidden in the woods at the end of the road? An escapist adventure, a gothic page-turner that is also so finely crafted that you\'ll feel enriched as well as transported for having read it.
She leads Cora on a mysterious mission that involves crossing the entire state of New York on foot.
But while Ruth used to speak to the dead, she now won\'t speak at all.
Decades later and after years of absence, Ruth visits her niece, Cora.
Together they embark on an unexpected journey that connects meteor sites, utopian communities, lost mothers, and a scar that maps its way across Ruth\'s face.
Bell, a con man with his own mystical interests.
Enter Mr.
And they may be able to talk to the dead.
They are orphans. -- Boston Globe Ruth and Nat are seventeen. -- New York Times Book Review An intriguing mystery with clues, suspense, enigmas galore, and an exhilarating, witty, poignant paean to the unexplainable, the unsolvable, the irreducibly mysterious.
A New York Times Editors\' Choice * A Paris Review Staff Pick * An Indie Next Pick Hypnotic and glowing
