The Magnetic Girl

Wall Street Journal''s Ten Books You''ll Want to Read This SpringIndie Next Pick, April 2019Spring Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance In rural north Georgia two decades a ...

Wall Street Journal''s Ten Books You''ll Want to Read This SpringIndie Next Pick, April 2019Spring Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father’s bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence.  Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection.“I only wanted to be Lulu Hurst, the girl who captivated her brother unti