Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt
Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt
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Mr. Splitfoot

Author: Samantha Hunt

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2016

Synopsis

A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoot tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning.Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later, Ruth’s niece Cora finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention. She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora on an odyssey across the entire state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And who—or what—has she hidden in the woods at the end of the road?In an ingeniously structured dual narrative, two separate timelines move toward the same point of crisis. Their merging will upend and reinvent the whole. A subversive ghost story that is carefully plotted and elegantly constructed, Mr. Splitfoot will set your heart racing and your brain churning. Mysteries abound, criminals roam free, utopian communities show their age, and the mundane world intrudes on the supernatural—and vice versa.

About Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt is an author whose novel about Nikola Tesla, The Invention of Everything Else, was a finalist for the Orange Prize and winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. Her first novel, The Seas, earned her selection as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35.” Her novel, Mr. Splitfoot, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, Tin House, A Public Space, and many other publications.

About Cassandra Campbell

Original bio sent from Cassandra: Cassandra Campbell began doing voice overs as the voice for Calvin Klein’s Italian commercials. This was followed by commercial and documentary recording in both English and Italian. She has recorded many audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie® Award nomination. As an actress and director, she has worked at the Public, the Mint, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stagewest, Theatreworks, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Millmountain Theatre, the National Shakespeare Company, and the New York Fringe Festival.  

About Emily Woo Zeller

Emily Woo Zeller is an Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator, voice-over artist, actor, dancer, and choreographer. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013. Her voice-over career includes work in animated film and television in Southeast Asia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew

1.5 Stars I need to listen to my wife more often. She read this years ago and said it was terrible. I have had it on my TBR, saw it was nominated for some awards, noticed it was available from the library, and figured it couldn’t be all that bad so I might as well try it. Well, my wife was right! The......more

Goodreads review by Ron

The historical and the fantastical entwine like snakes in Samantha Hunt’s fiction. Her first novel, “The Seas” (2004), caught the tale of a mermaid who loved an Iraq War vet. “The Invention of Everything Else” (2008) screwed time-traveling gizmos onto a story of the inventor Nikola Tesla. And now, h......more

Quotes

“Zombies are out, ghosts are in. Ms. Hunt…taps into the cultural zeitgeist with a new novel blurring the natural and supernatural.” Wall Street Journal

“Hypnotic and glowing.” New York Times Book Review

“The historical and the fantastical entwine like snakes in…this blend of romance and phantoms.” Washington Post

“An American gothic fever dream.” Chicago Tribune

“An escapist adventure, a gothic page-turner that is also so finely crafted that you’ll feel enriched as well as transported for having read it.” Esquire

“An intriguing mystery with clues, suspense, enigmas galore, and an exhilarating, witty, poignant paean to the unexplainable, the unsolvable, the irreducibly mysterious.” Boston Globe

“Ethereal…The book deftly straddles the slippery line between fantasy and reality…This spellbinder is storytelling at its best.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Motherhood, religious zeal, poverty, predation, and the frailty yet relentlessness of life are among the rich themes that Hunt explores here.” Booklist (starred review)

“A truly fantastic novel in which the blurring of natural and supernatural creates a stirring, visceral conclusion.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Readers…by joining the protagonists’ journey will discover that what they imagine they know about someone is often quite different from the reality.” School Library Journal

Awards

  • Publishers Weekly bestseller
  • Esquire Pick
  • Goodreads Readers’ Choice
  • Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year
  • Huffington Post Pick
  • Refinery29 Pick
  • Paste Magazine Pick
  • BookRiot Pick
  • Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books
  • Literary Hub Pick
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