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Black Sheep

Black Sheep

by Rachel Harrison

American literatureHorrorFictionThrillerMystery
3.5
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep. Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie. It’s to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made an exception to the rule? It wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen. When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.

Themes & subjects

American literatureHorrorFictionThrillerMysteryContemporary

Characters & people

Setting

New Jersey (United States)

About the author

Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison

1989

Rachel Harrison is the author of The Return, nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica and Electric Lit. She lives in New York with her husband and their cat/overlord. (<a href="https://www.rachel-harrison.com/about">Source</a>)

Author

Rachel Harrison

Pages

289

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Berkley

ISBN

9780593545850

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