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Author:

Urquhart, Rachel, author.

Title:

The Visionist : a novel / Rachel Urquhart.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Little Brown and Little,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

345 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Shakers--Fiction.
Abused children--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Massachusetts--History--19th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-345).

Summary:

An enthralling debut novel about a teenage girl who finds refuge--but perhaps not--in an 1840s Shaker community. In this exquisite, transporting debut, 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father. She and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called The City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when young girls in Shaker enclaves all across the Northeast are experiencing extraordinary mystical visions, earning them the honorific of "Visionist" and bringing renown to their settlements. The City of Hope has not yet been blessed with a Visionist, but that changes when Polly arrives and is unexpectedly exalted. As she struggles to keep her dark secrets concealed in the face of increasing scrutiny, Polly finds herself in a life-changing friendship with a young Shaker sister named Charity, a girl who will stake everything--including her faith--on Polly's honesty and purity.

ISBN:

0316228117
9780316228114

LCCN:

2013940557

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

NJPD993 -- Clarion Public Library (Clarion)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

MGPD463 -- Humboldt Public Library (Humboldt)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

HHPC765 -- Laurens Public Library (Laurens)

TGPD826 -- LeClaire Community Library (Le Claire)

OGPC877 -- Lenox Public Library (Lenox)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)