Follow Me To Ground

by Sue Rainsford

Genres: Literary Fiction; Magical Realism; Small Town & Rural

Synopsis

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In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human, though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn’t get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk — named Cures — who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments.

When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, she is forced to choose between her old life with her father and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town — and the Ground itself — for ever.

A poised and simmering tour de force, Follow Me to Ground is a sinister vision of desire and free will, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer.

Release date: January 5, 2021

Publisher: Scribner

Print pages: 208

Sample

Henry Law

Henry Law

It was easy to forget they’re not like us.

You could be looking at Miss Ada and talking to her simply, and then she’d say something like

Take into account the evenings are getting long, Mr. Law.

Her father too. We’d be talking easily enough and then all of a sudden I’d remember he knew my pop and all my uncles from the day they were born till the day they died.

I suppose it was easy to forget because they made it easy. They had to, to get by.