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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Blue skies, empty landand enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, andan absorbing, powerful (BuzzFeed)new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author ofThe Changeling.
Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our countrys divides.Los Angeles Times
ONE OF THEMOSTANTICIPATEDBOOKS OF 2023:The New York Times, Time, Oprah Daily, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Essence, Salon, Vulture, Readers Digest, The Root, LitHub, Paste, PopSugar, Chicago Review of Books, BookPage, Book Riot, Tordotcom, Crime Reads, Kirkus ReviewsAdelaide Henry carries anenormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. Its locked at all times.Because when the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear…
The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, and forced her to flee her hometown of Redondo, California, in a hellfire rush, ready to make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will be one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can cultivate itexcept that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing keeping her alive.
Told in Victor LaValle’s signature style, blending historical fiction, shimmering prose, and inventive horror,Lone Womenis the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her pastand a portrait of early twentieth-century America like you’ve never seen.