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The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girl's unearthly gift.
Little, Brown
January 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0316735043
Hardcover
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Contemporary
n Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls
come across the body of a dead man on the local lake's
beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old
Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably,
brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the
center of this haunting and transcendent novel. THE THIN
PLACE is the story of these girls, their town, and the
worldly and otherworldly forces that come into play there
over one summer. Writing at the peak of her powers, Kathryn
Davis draws on commonplace forms-police blotters, garden
almanacs, Sunday sermons, horoscopes, and diaries-to convey
the rich rhythms of life in Varennes. From the ladies in
the old-folks' home to trappers, lawyers, teachers,
ministers, drug addicts-even the dogs and cats, beavers and
bears-she peoples this novel with astonishingly vivid
beings. The extraordinary comes to visit an ordinary town.
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