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"Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large, eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife, Jane, gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets beautiful, sulky Roger and his volatile younger brother, Jonathan. Inevitable heartbreak sends her fleeing to Rome, but ten years later, older and wiser, she returns to find the Goldmans again, and another...
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"A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what's right. One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York-the same night her grandmother dies-or before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared....
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When 19th century Edinburgh is horrified by a series of brutal murders, a young woman claims to have dreamed each crime in detail and blames them on a lamplighter who may or may not be real. The official investigation headed by police inspector Carus Groves; the unofficial one, by professor of logic and metaphysics, Thomas McKnight, and his assistant, Joseph Canavan, gravedigger.
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