The Visionist - Urquhart, Rachel
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"After fifteen-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called The City of Hope. It is a time when young girls in Shaker enclaves are being visited by extraordinary mystical visions, earning them the honorific of 'visionist' and bringing renown to their settlements. The City of Hope has not yet been blessed with a Visionist--until Polly arrives and is unexpectedly exalted. The role brings unwelcome scrutiny as she struggles to conceal her dark past --especially from her best…mehr

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"After fifteen-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called The City of Hope. It is a time when young girls in Shaker enclaves are being visited by extraordinary mystical visions, earning them the honorific of 'visionist' and bringing renown to their settlements. The City of Hope has not yet been blessed with a Visionist--until Polly arrives and is unexpectedly exalted. The role brings unwelcome scrutiny as she struggles to conceal her dark past --especially from her best friend and ally, a young Shaker sister named Charity"--Back cover.
Autorenporträt
Rachel Urquhart's work has been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Elle, the New York Times, Vogue, and Spy, among other publications, and she is the author of three Chic Simple lifestyle books. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.