@90@@31@A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender,@28@@95@#160;Mr. Splitfoot@018@@95@#160;tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning.@32@@87@@16@ Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious@95@#160;fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later, Ruth@12@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.@95@#160;Where is Ruth taking them?@95@#160;Where has she been?@95@#160;And who @95@mdash; or what @95@mdash; has she hidden in the woods at the end of the road?@95@#160;@90@@95@#160;@95@#160;@90@In 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,@95@#160;@18@Mr. Splitfoot@95@#160;@19@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.@95@#160;@90@@95@#160;@95@#160;@90@Making good on the extraordinary acclaim for her previous books, Samantha Hunt continues to be @95@ldquo;dazzling@95@rdquo; (@18@Vanity Fair@19@) and to deliver fiction that is @95@ldquo;daring and delicious@95@rdquo; (@18@Chicago Tribune@19@).@91@@91@@91@@91@@91@
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