{"product_id":"mr-splitfoot-paperback","title":"Mr. Splitfoot - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamantha Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eEditors' Choice and Indie Next Pick. From the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Everything Else \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a contemporary gothic about Mr. Splitfoot, who tracks two women across multiple decades as they march, each in her own time, toward a mysterious reckoning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eRuth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later, Ruth's niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention. She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And who--or what--has she hidden in the woods at the end of the road?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an ingeniously structured dual narrative, two separate timelines move toward the same point of crisis. Their merging will upend and reinvent the whole. A subversive ghost story that is carefully plotted and elegantly constructed, \u003cem\u003eMr. Splitfoot\u003c\/em\u003e will set your heart racing and your brain churning. Mysteries abound, criminals roam free, utopian communities show their age, the mundane world intrudes on the supernatural and vice versa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSAMANTHA HUNT's \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Everything Else\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. After her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Seas, \u003c\/i\u003e she was selected for the National Book Foundation's inaugural 5 Under 35 program. Her fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723740385343,"sku":"9780544811812","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/626e5fb16949b3d6e47cf0807e89fd1c.webp?v=1765100201","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/mr-splitfoot-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}