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The Magnetic Girl - A Novel (Paperback)
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The Magnetic Girl - A Novel (Paperback)
Series: Cold Mountain Fund Series
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List price R378
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Winner of the 2020 Southern Book Prize Indie Next Pick, April 2019
One of the Atlanta Journal Constitution's "South's 10 best books of
2019" Finalist for the Townsend Prize Books All Georgians Should
Read from the Georgia Center for the Book One of the Wall Street
Journal's Spring Picks for books Okra Pick from the Southern
Independent Booksellers Alliance In this gorgeously envisioned
debut, set as the emergence of electricity and women's desire for
political, cultural, and sexual power electrified the country, a
young woman's rise to Vaudeville fame exposes secrets of her
family's past-and the keys to her own future. In rural north
Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu
Hurst discovers an obscure book by legendary Mesmerist Henrietta
Wolf on her father's shelf. After Lulu uses Wolf's wisdom to
convince a cousin she can conduct electricity with her touch, her
father sees an opportunity. Her father's lessons transform Lulu,
once deemed gangly and indelicate, into an electrifying new woman:
The Magnetic Girl, captivating enthusiastic crowds by lifting grown
men in parlor chairs, throwing them across the stage with her
"electrical charge." As her notoriety grows, Lulu harbors a secret
belief that she can use the power of Mesmerism to heal her disabled
baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural
mental connection. To help him, she delves into the mysterious
book's pages, determined to harness Wolf's teachings and convince
herself, and the world, that her gifts are authentic. But will they
be enough to heal her family? Based on true events, this
award-winning novel is a unique portrait of a forgotten period in
history, seen through the story of one young woman's power over her
family, her community, and ultimately, herself.
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