The cherry robbers / Sarai Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Sarai, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--Fiction.

Artists.

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Heiresses--Fiction.

Heiresses.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Impostors and imposture--Fiction.

Impostors and imposture.

Blessing and cursing--Fiction.

Blessing and cursing.

Genre:

Horror fiction.

Historical fiction.

Gothic fiction.

FICTION / Literary^FICTION / Gothic^FICTION / Women.

Physical Description:

x, 420 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up"-- Provided by publisher.

"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past. But when a hungry journalist starts chasing her story, she's confronted with whom she once was: Iris Chapel. Connecticut, 1950: Iris Chapel is the second youngest of six sisters, all heiresses to a firearms fortune. They've grown up cloistered in a palatial Victorian house, mostly neglected by their distant father and troubled mother, who believes that their house is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons. The girls long to escape, and for most of them, the only way out is marriage. But not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second, leaving the rest to navigate the wreckage, to heart-wrenching consequences. Ultimately, Iris flees the devastation of her family, and so begins the story of Sylvia Wren. But can she outrun the family curse forever?"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Walker, Sarai, The cherry robbers

ISBN:

9780358251873

0358251877

9780358578468

0358578469

OCLC:

1224246110