{"product_id":"follow-me-to-ground-9781982133641","title":"Follow Me to Ground","description":"One of Literary Hub's Favorite Books of the Year \"Seethingly assured...like all the best horror, [Follow Me to Ground] is an impressive balancing act between judicious withholding and unnerving reveals.\" --The Guardian A \"legitimately frightening\" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal.\"You've never encountered a father-daughter story like Rainsford's slim debut\" (Entertainment Weekly). 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. \"Visceral in its descriptions...this unworldly story is a well-crafted and eerie exploration of desire...beautifully intoxicating\" (Shelf Awareness). 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 [Follow Me to Ground is] unlike anything you will read this year\" (Téa Obreht).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50682047856914,"sku":"9781982133641","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a27d9acb-59a4-4e1c-b2ec-0b3e364996bc.jpg?v=1733962739","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/follow-me-to-ground-9781982133641","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}