Named one of the Best Horror Books byThe New York Times
Weird and exhilarating and funny and sad and disturbing and scary and poignant and righteous. Paul Tremblay, author ofThe Pallbearers Club
Pure nightmare fuel. Gus Moreno, author ofThis Thing Between Us
It's the summer of 1989 and Beatrice and Henrietta Volt are coming of age on remote Fowler Island, their ancestral home and wild playground. Thicker than thieves, the sisters plot their futures, having no idea that their parents are separating. Or that the plan is to separatethem.
Ten years pass before Henrie gets a desperate call from her sistertheir father has died suddenly and B.B. needs her to come back to the island for the funeral. But Henrie doesnt want to go back. Shes barely put the island and all those rumors about missing women behind her. And isnt it odd that she remembers nothing at all about the night she left? And why is she suddenly filled with fear about the quarry pond behind the house?
Told from the perspectives of four flawed, fascinating women,The Insatiable Volt Sistersis a lush, enthralling fable about monsters real and imagined. From the unbounded imagination of Rachel Eve Moulton, the critically acclaimed author ofTinfoil Butterfly, comes another eerie, terrifying exploration of family and legacy: Will the Volt sisters inherit the horrors of their past or surpass them?
Rachel Eve Moultonis the author of
Tinfoil Butterfly, which was short-listed for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award and long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her work has appeared in
Chicago Quarterly Review, Bryant Literary Review,and
Southwest Review,among other publications. She lives in the mountains of New Mexico with her husband and daughters.
Complex and beautifully written, this mesmerizing novel constantly reminds readers that we often havelµ
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