Smothermoss [electronic resource]
Alisa Alering2024
eBook
Find it!
Set in an isolated 1980s Appalachian community, reeling from the brutal murder
of two hikers, this novel is deliciously creepy and unsettling, yet gorgeous and
dreamlike in its portrayal of two impoverished girls who must come to terms with
what's happening on the sentient mountain they call home and also with
themselves as they stand on the cusp of adulthood. 1980s Appalachia. Sheila
knows she needs to keep her appetites in check. Isolated and struggling in
ramshackle poverty, her desires – for food, for escape, for the perfect girls in
the pages of her pilfered magazines – are about the only things she can control.
But with every passing day, life with her exhausted mother and her half-feral
younger sister Angie feels more like a rope tightening around her neck. When a
pair of hikers are brutally murdered on the trail, Sheila and Angie find
themselves drawn inexorably into the hunt for the killer. The mountain they live
on is ancient and powerful – and it's using them for...
Main title:
Smothermoss [electronic resource] / Alisa Alering
Author:
Alisa Alering, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Titan Books, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (288 pages, 1558494.0 Bytes)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781803369969
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
533067
Electronic access:
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |