| International Standard Book Number |
9780316581554
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316607209
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| Personal Name |
Givhan, Jennifer, author.
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| Title Statement |
The sleeping sisters : a novel / Jennifer Givhan.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
402 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Psychic trauma.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Serial murder investigation.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Policewomen.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
A mother's love is the oldest curse. Fortuna Miércoles has finally moved her family to a better neighborhood across the Rio Grande, desperate to outrun the curse that's stalked her bloodline since her greatest grandmother crossed the desert with a cactus thorn splitting her throat. But burying a family's violent legacy isn't so easy. Twenty years ago, girls and women vanished into the Albuquerque night, their bones later unearthed on the mesa. The so-called Reaper was never caught. Now, beneath the dormant volcanoes called the Sleeping Sisters, the killings have begun again. Detective Jeanette Palacio has spent decades chasing the ghosts of her murdered cousins, alongside the memory of the other women she couldn't avenge. When a new body turns up in Fortuna's backyard, both women are pulled into a dangerous, ancient plot. Are the Sleeping Sisters awakening, or has someone in Fortuna's family set a trap? Inspired by true events and shot through with a Chicana-Indigenous reimagining of the legend of the headless woman, The Sleeping Sisters is a fevered, feral hymn to motherhood and the monstrous bargains we make to protect those we love.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Albuquerque (N.M.)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Horror fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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