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Lone Women: A Novel
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Blue skies, empty land--and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an "absorbing, powerful" (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling. "Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country's divides."--Los Angeles Times ONE OF BOOKPAGE'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, Vulture, Paste, Tordotcom, Book Riot, Polygon, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the "lone women" taking advantage of the government's offer of free land for those who can tame it--except that Adelaide isn't alone. And the secret she's tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory. Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you've never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past--or redeem it.Show more
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“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
~ Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
🐎 Feeling like you don't belong where you've always been can be a paralysis. It keeps you from knowing who you really are, turns every fear in on itself and into a poison on your life. This is how Adelaide Henry has been existing with her parents her whole life in Lucerne Valley, California, until the day she packs up...read more
This novel is billed as a feminist horror western. The oddness of that combo alone is what really real me in, and imagine my surprise when I found out that there is a history of lone women homesteading. After this novel I will be seeking out more about the subject, because it is such an interesting subject all on its own.
We open the novel with Adelaide Henry and her frantic rush to douse her childhood home and parents corpses in fuel so that sh...read more
Content warning for body horror, death, violence, racism, murder, and related topics. This is my favorite horror book that I've ever read. I think I've figured out that I don't like psychological horror, because it feels like the reader is purposefully confused. In this, there was body horror and a spooky atmosphere, but I knew what was happening the whole time. I liked the characters in this book a lot, especially Adelaide. It lagged for me just...read more
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