Laura Kasischke

The critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Raising returns with a haunting and shadowy thriller about the love between a mother and daughter. Something had followed them from Russia. On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens, the fragments of a nightmare—something so important that she must write it down—floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something had followed them from Russia. It was thirteen years ago that she and her husband, Eric, went to Siberia to adopt the sweet, dark-haired child they had wanted so desperately. How they laughed at the nurses of Pokrovka Orphanage #2 with their garlic and superstitions, and ignored their insistent warnings. After all, their fairy princess Tatiana—Baby Tatty—was perfect. As the snow falls, enveloping the world in its white silence, Holly senses that something is not right, and has never been right in the years since they brought their daughter home. Now Tatty is a dangerously beautiful, petulant, and often erratic teenager, and Holly feels there is something evil lurking within their house. She and Tatiana are alone. Eric is stuck on the roads, and none of the other guests for Christmas dinner will be able to make it through the snow. With each passing hour, the blizzard rages and Tatiana's mood darkens, her behavior becoming increasingly disturbing . . . until, in every mother's worst nightmare, Holly finds she no longer recognizes her daughter.

Mind of Winter

“Kasischke’s writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.” —New York Times Book Review “Haunting, unsettling, and unforgettable, The Raising limns love, longing, belonging and the things we only think we know about life—and yes, death.” —Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You From Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes, comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unforgettable , Kasischke’s The Raising sets a new standard for hair-raising literary suspense.

A Novel

The Raising

Laura Kasischke's first novel, SUSPICIOUS RIVER, was hailed as "extremely powerful" (The Los Angeles Times) and "amazing...beautifully written" (The Boston Globe). Now Kasischke follows up her auspicious debut with mesmerizing story of youthful passion and loss of innocence. When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been "becoming sixteen" - falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, discovering sex - her mother has been slowly withdrawing. As Kat and her impassive father pick up the pieces of their daily lives, she finds herself curiously unaffected by her mother's absence. But in dreams that become too real to ignore, she's haunted by her mother's cries for help. Finally, she must act on her instinct that something violent and evil has occurred - a realization that brings Kat to a chilling discovery. Like SUSPICIOUS RIVER, which The New Yorker described as "by turns terrifying and ravishingly lyrical," WHITE BIRD BLIZZARD evokes works of Kathryn Harrison and Joyce Carol Oates - and confirms Kasischke's arrival as a major literary talent.

White Bird in a Blizzard

Follows seventeen-year-old Diana as she makes her first uncertain steps into womanhood and embarks on a fragile construction of identity and self, and experiences marriage and motherhood.

The Life Before Her Eyes

a novel

Sweet things

"Space, in Chains" speaks in ghostly voices, fractured narratives, songs, prayers, and dark riddles as it moves through contemporary tragedies of grief and the complex succession of generations. In her eighth book of poetry, Laura Kasischke has pared the construction of her verse to its bones, leaving haunting language and a visceral strangeness of imagery. by turns mournful and celebratory, Kasischke's poetry insists upon asking hard questions that are courageously left unanswered."--Cover, p. [4].

Space, in Chains

Former flight attendant Jiselle Dorn's idyllic family life as the wife of pilot Mark Dorn and the mother of two soon grows wearisome, since Mark is always away and her children are hostile, but nothing can prepare her for the threat of the Phoenix Flu, which endangers the very lives they have all imagined. Original. 35,000 first printing.

In a Perfect World

Gardening in the Dark, Kasischke’s sixth book of poetry, explores the transformative power of imagination. Her poems take us to the flip side of human consciousness, where anything can happen at any time. Tinged with surrealism, her work makes visionary leaps from the quotidian to sudden, surprising epiphanies.

Gardening in the Dark

They were 1--with perfect tans and perfect cheerleader bodies--out for a joyride, but when two guys start to follow them, their day takes a drastic turn.

Boy Heaven

Lorsqu'elle se réveille ce matin-là, Holly, angoissée, se précipite dans la chambre de sa fille. Tatiana dort encore, paisible. Pourtant rien n'est plus comme avant en ce jour de Noël. Dehors, le blizzard s'est levé ; les invités ne viendront pas. Au fil des heures, ponctuées par des appels téléphoniques anonymes, Tatiana devient irascible, étrange, inquiétante. Holly se souvient : l'adoption de la fillette si jolie, treize ans auparavant, en Sibérie. Holly s'interroge : " Quelque chose les aurait suivis depuis la Russie jusque chez eux ? "

Esprit d'hiver

While on Spring Break in Cancun, Mexico, high-school seniors and best friends Anne and Michelle accept the wrong ride and Michelle is lost--seemingly forever.

Feathered

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Laura Kasischke unapologetically explores the dark and humorous realities of our lives.

Where Now: New and Selected Poems

Lilies Without is Laura Kasischke’s seventh volume of poetry. Widely admired for her startling use of metaphor and nervy, surprising syntax, she peels back the skins of our ordinary lives to reveal underlying anxieties and complexities. Funny, irreverent, personal, and at the same time unnerving, these poems take us to familiar places made entirely strange so that we may see them again as they really are, without the disguises we invent so as to remain blind to what disturbs us.

Lilies Without

In her stunning twelfth poetry collection, Lightning Falls in Love, Laura Kasischke makes magic with a complex alchemy of nostalgia and fire, birdwing and sorrow. In new poems that search the murky lake for news of the past, she evokes unsayable trauma and gleans possibility. This is poetry that is existential in scope but grounded in the body, surreal yet suburban, reaching for clarity just beyond the fog of the day-to-day. Kasischke has found an entirely new way to spin beauty and pull breath from that which must be dredged up and revived before it can be left behind.

Lightning Falls in Love

""Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."-Austin American-StatesmanThe Infinitesimals stares directly at illness and death, employing the same highly evocative and symbolic style that earned Laura Kasischke the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Drawing upon her own experiences with cancer, and the lives and deaths of loved ones, Kasischke's new work commands a lyrical and dark intensity.Laura Kasischke is the author of eight collections of poetry and seven novels. She teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "--

The Infinitesimals

Trois adolescentes américaines, Anne, Michelle et Terri, partent au Mexique pour leurs vacances. Lorsque Ander propose de leur faire visiter les ruines mayas, Anne et Michelle décident de le suivre. Anne oblige son amie à rentrer à l'hôtel dans la voiture des garçons qu'elle vient de rencontrer. Lors d'un détour au Club Med elles seront entraînées dans une beuverie d'adolescents qui tourne mal.

La couronne verte

In a perfect world

This deeply erotic thriller explores how little people know themselves and those they live with, and what they risk when they step away from their social personas and allow passion to control their lives.

Be Mine

Mythical sea beasts, loads of laundry, and high school athletics all populate the rich imagination of Laura Kasischke’s newest collection.

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