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100 1  Rainsford, Sue,|d1988-|eauthor. 
245 10 Follow me to ground :|ba novel /|cSue Rainsford. 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bScribner,|c2020. 
300    199 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young
       woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a 
       shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our 
       understanding of power, predation, and agency.  Ada and 
       her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on 
       the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or 
       “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or 
       temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground
       nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is 
       mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man 
       named Samson. When they strike up an affair, to the 
       displeasure of her father and Samson’s widowed, pregnant 
       sister, Ada is torn between her old way of life and new 
       possibilities with her lover—and eventually comes to a 
       decision that will forever change Samson, the town, and 
       the Ground itself.  Follow Me to Ground is fascinating and
       frightening, urgent and propulsive. In Ada, award-winning 
       author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching 
       heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of 
       womanhood and the secrets of the body. Slim but 
       authoritative, Follow Me to Ground lingers long after its 
       final page, pulling the reader into a dream between 
       fairytale and nightmare, desire and delusion, folktale and
       warning.  
650  0 Fathers and daughters|vFiction. 
650  0 Healers|vFiction. 
655  0 Magic realism (Literature) 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aRainsford, Sue.
       |tFollow me to ground|dStillorgan, County Dublin, Republic
       of Ireland : New Island, 2018|w(DLC)  2018400595