num_pages: 208
description: 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 localsor Curesby 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 Samsons widowed pregnant sister Ada is torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her loverand 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.
language: English
title: Follow Me to Ground
publisher: Scribner