Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal
illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or
"Cures"—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying
them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more
and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she
meets a man named Samson. When they strike up an affair, to the
displeasure of her father and Samson's widowed, pregnant sister, Ada is
torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her
lover—and eventually comes to a decision that will forever change
Samson, the town, and the Ground itself.
Follow Me to Ground is
fascinating and frightening, urgent and propulsive. In Ada,
award-winning author Sue Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching
heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the
secrets of the body. Slim but authoritative, Follow Me to Ground
lingers long after its final page, pulling the reader into a dream
between fairy tale and nightmare, desire and delusion, folktale and
warning.
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