Sister Séance

Download or read book Sister Séance written by Aimee Parkison and published by Kernpunkt Press. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical feminist horror novel, Sister Séance takes place in Concord, Massachusetts, just after the Civil War. Spiritualism is sweeping the nation when Halloween calls for matchmaking in atraditional "dumb supper," a dinner party where guests may not speak but must express their needsand desires through nonverbal communication. Mysterious intruders shock the party guests intoconfronting their pasts through materializations. These materializations unite sisters of séance with abolitionists, freed people, former slaveholders, wounded Civil War veterans, and a photographer pregnant with the child of a former slave.