Mariner Books:
New York: 2017
First printing, Trade paperback, New,
322 pp.
Cover artwork by: Kathy Konkle

This woman is the bomb! “A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning. Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later, Ruth’s niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention. She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And who or what has she hidden in the woods at the end of the road? In an ingeniously structured dual narrative, two separate timelines move toward the same point of crisis. Their merging will upend and reinvent the whole.” #63302

Price: $14.95