| Seven days before Easter Monday, in a small town north of Winnipeg Manitoba,an eleven-year-old girl sitting in her classroom began to bleed from the palm of her left hand...The Blood Girls is a gripping novel of literary detectionset in the small town of Annex, Manitoba, that beginswhen Donna Desjardins starts to bleed from her palmsclays before Easter, and climaxes with a strange andbrutal murder that calls up unavoidable comparisonswith the stigmata.Virginia Waters, town doctor. Daniel Halpern, skepti-cal journalist. Molly Rutabaga and her lifelongcompanion, Regina. Father Ricci, the Catholic priest.All respond to the story of the blood girl, a story bril-liantly constructed from journal entries, memory, interviews, newspaper articles, desire, imagination, correspondence, and invective. Recalling Midnight in the Garden oJ Good and Evil as a work of literary intrigue, The Blood Girls is both satisfying and astonishing. |
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