![]() The second story in Captivity is about loss and grief. The Fox Sisters’ is a story of ambition and playfulness, of illusion and fear, of indulgence, guilt and finally self-destruction. Their followers included the famous and the rich, and their effect on American spirituality lasted a full generation. Doing so, they unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. The first centers upon the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. ![]() This masterful historical novel by Deborah Noyes, the lauded author of Angel & Apostle, The Ghosts of Kerfol, and Encyclopedia of the End (starred PW) is two stories: ![]()
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