Sarai Walker has done it again.
Only Iris, the second-youngest, finds a way to escape--but can she outrun the family curse forever? Sarai Walker, the acclaimed author of the cult-hit novel Dietland, building off the Gothic tradition of Shirley Jackson, brings to life this riveting, deliciously twisted feminist tale, a gorgeous and provocative page-turner about the legacy of male power and the cost of female freedom..
But this is just the beginning of a chain of disasters that will make each woman wonder whether true love will kill her, too.
The bride dies mysteriously the very next day, leaving her family and the town in shock.
When the eldest sister walks down the aisle, tragedy strikes.
Yet it soon becomes clear that for the Chapel sisters, marriage equals death.
They long to escape the eerie fairy tale of their childhood and move forward into the modern world, but for young women in 1950s Connecticut, the only way out is through marriage.
Neglected by both a distant, workaholic father and a mentally troubled mother--who believes their home is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons--the sisters have grown up with only each other for company.
Iris Chapel and her five elegant sisters, all of them heiresses to the Chapel firearms fortune, live cloistered in a lavish Victorian mansion.
INSTEAD IT WAS THE LAST.
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. -- Maria Semple The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her slyly subversive ( EW ) cult-hit Dietland --a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up.
With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal.
Sarai Walker has done it again
