{"product_id":"riddance-or-the-sybil-joines-vocational-school-for-ghost-speakers-hearing-mouth-children-9781948226363","title":"Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers \u0026 Hearing-Mouth Children","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Believer Book Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of Fall by \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable. —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEleven-year-old Jane Grandison,  tormented by her stutter, sits in the back seat of a car, letter in hand inviting her to live and study at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers \u0026amp; Hearing-Mouth Children. Founded in 1890 by Headmistress Sybil Joines, the school—at first glance—is a sanctuary for children seeking to cure their speech impediments. Inspired by her haunted and tragic childhood, the Headmistress has other ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePioneering the field of necrophysics, the Headmistress harnesses the “gift” she and her students possess. Through their stutters, together they have the ability to channel ghostly voices communicating from the land of the dead, a realm the Headmistress herself visits at will. Things change for the school and the Headmistress when a  student disappears, attracting attention from  parents and police alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in the overlapping worlds of the living and the dead, Shelley Jackson’s \u003ci\u003eRiddance\u003c\/i\u003e is an illuminated novel told through theoretical writings in necrophysics, the Headmistress’s dispatches from the land of the dead, and Jane’s evolving life as Joines’s new stenographer and central figure in the Vocational School’s mysterious present,  as well as its future.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516241207639,"sku":"9781948226363","price":18.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/riddance-or-the-sybil-joines-vocational-school-for-ghost-speakers-hearing-mouth-children-9781948226363","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}