The Clairvoyants
A Novel
Henry Holt and Co.
Available: 02/07/17
6.52 x 9.4 · 352 pages
9781627797054
CDN $38.00
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A deliciously modern classic ghost story"--Chloe Benjamin,New York Times bestselling author ofThe Immortalists
The Clairvoyants is Karen Brown's most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift
On the family homestead by the sea 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's disappeared--until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha's apartment window, wearing a down coat, her hair coated with ice.
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Karen Brown'sLittle Sinners and Other Stories was named a Best Book of 2012 byPublisher's Weekly, her previous collectionPins and Needles received AWP's Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and her first novel,The Longings of Wayward Girls, was published in 2013 by Washington Square Press to rave reviews. Her work has been featured in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories,The New York Times, andGood Housekeeping. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of South Florida.
