Follow Me to Ground

by Rainsford, Sue
3.4 out of 5 Customer Rating
ISBN: 9781982133641
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"Seethingly assured...like all the best horror, Follow Me to Ground] is an impressive balancing act between judicious withholding and unnerving reveals." --The Guardian

A "legitimately frightening" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal.

"You've never encountered a father-daughter story like Rainsford's slim debut" (Entertainment Weekly). Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals--or "Cures"--by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson--and they quickly strike up an affair. Soon, Ada is torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her lover, and eventually she comes to a decision that will forever change Samson, the town, and the Ground itself.

"Visceral in its descriptions...this unworldly story is a well-crafted and eerie exploration of desire...beautifully intoxicating" (Shelf Awareness). In Ada, award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the secrets of the body. "A triumph of imagination and myth-bending...equal parts beauty and horror Follow Me to Ground is] unlike anything you will read this year" (T a Obreht).

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Rainsford, Sue
  • ISBN: 9781982133641
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.70 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 2021

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