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If the dead belong here / Carson Faust.
"When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her family's secrets in a mesmerizing Native American Southern Gothic"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593830895 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 391 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Indigenous peoples > North America > Fiction. Missing children > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Nightmares > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Gothic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Faust | 31681010440790 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her family's secrets in a mesmerizing Native American Southern Gothic"-- - Baker & Taylor
When six-year-old Laurel vanishes, her sister Nadineâs haunting visions lead her deep into family history and Indigenous folklore, where uncovering buried truths may be the only way to bring Laurel home and heal generations of unresolved grief. - Penguin Putnam
âFierce, lyrical, and unrelentingly intimate . . . This is a story about hauntings both literal and inherited, a child gone missing, and the women who carry everything that came before. Faust doesnât just bend formâhe breaks it open. âMorgan Talty, national bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez
âCarson Faust debuts as a literary force." âMonica Brashears, author of House of Cotton
When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her familyâs secrets in a mesmerizing Native American Southern Gothic
When six-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and unanswered questions. As their search turns to despair, Laurelâs older sister, Nadine, begins experiencing nightmares that blur the line between dream and reality, and she becomes convinced that Laurelâs disappearance could be connected to other family tragedies. Guided by her elders, Nadine sets out to uncover whether laying the ghosts to rest is the key to finding her sister and healing her fractured family.
Carson Faust captivates in this chilling literary debut that confronts the specter of colonization and the generational scars it leaves on Native American families. Steeped in Indigenous folklore and drawing from the authorâs own family history, If the Dead Belong Here examines what it means to be hauntedâboth by the supernatural and by terrors of our own making. Faust crafts a powerful, kaleidoscopic tale about the complicated legacies of violence that shape our present, the importance of honoring our past, and the resilience of a familyâand a peopleâdetermined to heal from old wounds.
