The Visionist

by Rachel Urquhart

Book Overview

An enthralling first novel about a teenage girl who finds refuge -- but perhaps not -- in an 1840s Shaker community. After 15-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 the Era of Manifestations, when young girls in Shaker enclaves all across the Northeast are experiencing extraordinary mystical visions, earning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316228117
• ISBN13: 9780316228114
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"