{"product_id":"follow-me-to-ground-paperback","title":"Follow Me to Ground - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSue Rainsford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e's Favorite Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Seethingly assured...like all the best horror,  \u003ci\u003eFollow Me to Ground\u003c\/i\u003e] is an impressive balancing act between judicious withholding and unnerving reveals.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"legitimately frightening\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"You've never encountered a father-daughter story like Rainsford's slim debut\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals--or \"Cures\"--by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson--and they quickly strike up an affair. Soon, Ada is torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her lover, and eventually she comes to a decision that will forever change Samson, the town, and the Ground itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Visceral in its descriptions...this unworldly story is a well-crafted and eerie exploration of desire...beautifully intoxicating\" (\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e). In Ada, award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the secrets of the body. \"A triumph of imagination and myth-bending...equal parts beauty and horror  \u003ci\u003eFollow Me to Ground\u003c\/i\u003e is] unlike anything you will read this year\" (T a Obreht).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSue Rainsford is a fiction and arts writer based in Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College, she completed her MFA in writing and literature at Bennington College, Vermont. She is a recipient of the VAI\/DCC Critical Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. When it was first published, \u003ci\u003e Follow Me to Ground\u003c\/i\u003e won the Kate O'Brien Award and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759861399840,"sku":"9781982133641","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/12731afbf8108c8f662558386f1bc389.webp?v=1780164475","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/follow-me-to-ground-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}