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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Laura Kasischke unapologetically explores the dark and humorous realities of our lives.

In her stunning twelfth poetry collection, Lightning Falls in Love, Laura Kasischke makes magic with a complex alchemy of nostalgia and fire, birdwing and sorrow. In new poems that search the murky lake for news of the past, she evokes unsayable trauma and gleans possibility. This is poetry that is existential in scope but grounded in the body, surreal yet suburban, reaching for clarity just beyond the fog of the day-to-day. Kasischke has foun...

The Time Machine is Laura Kasischke¿s eleventh book of poetry. The Time Machine offers us surreal and transformative explorations of maternity, mortality, and memory. In the opening poem, Laura tells us: ¿This is what it feels like / to be a woman / who is also a vulture.¿ In a sense, this collection is an elegy for the present self, at once a reminder of all we have lost and all we have to gain if we dig deeply into ourselves: ¿In the end, no...

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If you liked the heady power and creepy hold of The Poison Tree, you'll love this hypnotic story of a college obsessed with a student's sudden death. Nicole Werner, a blonde and beautiful prom queen who died in a car crash last semester. She was a prized member of the Virgin Sisters, the most powerful sorority on campus. Her boyfriend Craig was at the wheel that night. He has no memory of the crash, but he is plagued by guilt. For as winter se...

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The accident was tragic, bloody, and horrific, claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl. Nicole was a straight-A student, sweet-tempered, all-American, and a virgin. But it was an accident. And that was last year. Its a new semester, a fresh start. Craig, who was not charged with murder, is focusing on his classesand on avoiding Nicoles sorority sisters, who blame him for her death even though the police did not. Perry, Craigs room...

A chilling and dark psychological drama that will leave you guessing until the very last page... Waking up on Christmas day, Holly feels something is wrong. A phrase from a nightmare lingers in her mind... something had followed them home from Russia. As blizzards rage outside, Holly remembers her trip to Siberia fifteen years ago, to adopt her daughter Tatiana. Today Tatiana is acting strangely and as her behaviour becomes increasingly fright...

The critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Raising returns with a haunting and shadowy thriller about the love between a mother and daughter.Something had followed them from Russia.On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens, the fragments of a nightmare—something so important that she must write it down—floating on the edge of her consciousness.Something had followed them from Russia.It was thirteen years ago that she and he...

Something had followed them from Russia.It was thirteen years ago that Holly and her husband, Eric, went to Siberia to adopt the sweet, dark-haired child they wanted so desperately. How they laughed at the nurses of Pokrovka Orphanage #2, with their garlic and superstitions, and ignored their insistent warnings. After all, their fairy princess Tatiana—Baby Tatty—was perfect.As the snow falls, enveloping the world in its white silence, Holly se...

This is the way the world ends...It was a fairy tale come true when Mark Dorn—handsome pilot, widower, tragic father of three—chose Jiselle to be his wife. The other flight attendants were jealous: She could quit now, leaving behind the million daily irritations of the job. (Since the outbreak of the Phoenix flu, passengers had become even more difficult and nervous, and a life of constant travel had grown harder.) She could move into Mark Dor...

Haunting, unsettling, and unforgettable, "The Raising" limns love, longing, belonging and the things we only think we know about life--and yes, death. . . it's a literary mystery that's as hypnotic as it is brilliant.--Caroline Leavitt, author of "Pictures of You.

When a tragic accident claims the life of a young sorority girl, the people around her are affected in different ways. And Shelly, first at the scene of the horrific, bloody accident, has something to say. The girl she saw that night was not bloodyand not dead.

When a tragic accident claims the life of a young sorority girl, the people around her are affected in different ways. And Shelly, first at the scene of the horrific, bloody accident, has something to say. The girl she saw that night was not bloodyand not dead.

When a tragic accident claims the life of a young sorority girl, the people around her are affected in different ways. And Shelly, first at the scene of the horrific, bloody accident, has something to say. The girl she saw that night was not bloodyand not dead.

Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday...and the eternal." --"Time Magazine

Kasischke's surreal stories verge on sci fi -- ghost girls in the backyard and changelings in the kitchen.

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Diana stands before the mirror, preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and seventeen-year-old Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment, the future she was just imagining is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make.