- American literature, Horror, Fiction, Thriller
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep. Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen. When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and intimate.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Rachel Harrison
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 289
- Publisher
- Berkley, Titan Books Limited, Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593545850
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“As I stood singing the birthday song for the fifth time that evening, I realized I was wrong for not believing in hell.”
Rachel Harrison is the author of The Return, nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica and Electric Lit. She lives in New York with her husband and their cat/overlord. (<a href="https://www.rachel-harrison.com/about">Source</a>)
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