Mind of Winter

Name: Mind of Winter
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Laura Kasischke
ISBN: 9780062327062

Author: Laura Kasischke

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 03/25/2014

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Horror

Synopsis

Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror—an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part Chris Bohjalian.On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. Thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric adopted baby Tatty, their pretty, black-haired Rapunzel, from the Pokrovka Orphanage #2. Now, at fifteen, Tatiana is more beautiful than ever—and disturbingly erratic.As a blizzard rages outside, Holly and Tatiana are alone. With each passing hour, Tatiana’s mood darkens, and her behavior becomes increasingly frightening . . . until Holly finds she no longer recognizes her daughter.

About Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, she has published eight collections of poetry and ten novels, three of which have been made into films, including The Life Before Her Eyes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Delee on October 11, 2017

Something followed them from Russia Holly and Eric Judge wake up late on a snowy Christmas day- As Eric rushes off to pick up family at the airport- Holly stays behind to get ready for their holiday dinner guests...but something feels so wrong...and the same phrase keeps running through her mind over......more

Goodreads review by karen on August 13, 2019

this is a brisk little family drama/psychological suspense novel that all takes place on a blizzardy christmas day in the suburbs of detroit. holly and her husband eric oversleep on christmas morning, feeling the effects of their festive drinking the night before. holly wakes up with the phrase Some......more

Goodreads review by Mauoijenn on December 21, 2014

Holy smoking marshmallows... This was a hell of a ride. I was very intrigued by this story and what I heard about it. I admit the first 30 pages I was like wtf!? This crazy woman has lost it. I stuck with it as it had to be leading somewhere. And boy did it!! That ending.........more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 13, 2021

Mind of Winter is a contemporary version of a favorite Victorian genre, the Christmas ghost story. I had read Laura Kasischke's book The Raising a few years ago with very mixed impressions. It portrayed a university (obviously Michigan) setting excellently with an intriguing mystery, but was marred......more

Goodreads review by David on September 21, 2014

This book would have made a great short story. Instead it was a short novel, and at least twice as long as it needed to be. We spend the entire book (except for the epilogue) in the mind of Holly Judge. It's not a very interesting place, notwithstanding Holly's somewhat interesting history, which eme......more