One Morning

<p>The land around Gour Borough Pennsylvania seeps and oozes with the poisonous cast-offs from generations of industrial mining. The town-long abandoned by the companies which have taken everything-lurches settles and crumbles toward oblivion. Over the course of a fateful morning twelve women will find their lives inexplicably entwined as their actions reactions and inactions tick toward an ultimate end. </p><p></p><p>These women-taxidermist shepherdess and huntress; mother wife and sister; innocent orphan and dreamer; hostage murderer and seer-have one final chance to address all the pain and hurt and unfulfilled desires in their lives. </p><p></p><p>It won't be enough . . . </p><p></p><p>Jessica Hagy is an artist and writer whose work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has been featured in <em>Wired The New York Times Harvard Business Review</em> and <em>Forbes</em>. <em>One Morning</em> explores the intersection of the natural and unnatural the uncanny and the weird. It asks what it means to be both human and haunted in a land we have irrevocably changed. </p><p></p><p>Don't read this book alone in an isolated cabin in the woods.  </p><p> -<em>Aurealis</em></p><p></p><p>Disturbing poignant and alive </p><p> -Rick Kleffel <em>Narrative Species</em></p>