The Clairvoyants
“Karen Brown deftly manages to make the occult ordinary and the strange familiar in this surprising and suspenseful novel.”
Lily Tuck, National Book Award–winning author
An Amazon Best Book of the Month for February 2017
Karen Brown's most hypnotic novel to date is gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift.
On the family homestead 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 has disappeared―until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha's apartment window, wearing a winter coat, her hair coated with ice.
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