Spider in a Tree Francesco Sedita and the dwelling was empty

and the dwelling was empty and derelict

A "Best of" Pick byFangirlish

King settles in at once

and your secrets closer

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Padma Lakshmi Book Club Pick

Spider in a Tree Francesco Sedita and the dwelling was empty"Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human."Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home "Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities."Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones "Wonderfully fuses the historic and