On Sundays, She Picked Flowers
When Judith Rice killed her mother, she thought she put an end to the woman's hold on her. Seventeen years later, secluded deep in the woods of northern Georgia, Jude knows that the past isn't all that easy to discard. Alone with her strange house and even stranger woods, Jude must grapple with ghosts, haints, beasts, and an enigmatic woman who threatens to undo the tentative peace Jude's built for herself by fanning the violence that lives just underneath her skin.
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Beautiful, warm, violent, icy, intimate and distant all at once. I loved every high and low and I was surprised how the imagery carried me through the softer, slower parts of this novella. What an incredible project, shining Scholfield's strengths in narrative and prose while building a skeletal structure to offset some of Scholfield's weaknesses in rhythm and momentum in longform writing. Can't wait to see what she writes next, now that she's got On Sundays and Just a Little Snack as novellas under her belt.