Alisa Alering writes stories that open the door to secret worlds lurking within our own. Her work often draws on a deep connection to the natural world and a perspective that reveals hidden layers of existence. As a former librarian, she brings a meticulous approach and an eye for the unseen to her fiction.
Set in an isolated 1980s Appalachian community, reeling from the brutal murder of two hikers, this novel is deliciously creepy and unsettling, yet gorgeous and dreamlike in its portrayal of two impoverished girls who must come to terms with what's happening on the sentient mountain they call home.