{"product_id":"an-impossibility-of-crows-a-novel-paperback-softback-9781625349255","title":"An Impossibility of Crows; A Novel (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625349255","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Impossibility of Crows\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKirsten Kaschock (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625349255\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] fiercely unsettling gothic novel that fuses maternal devotion, scientific obsession, and inherited trauma.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is literary horror at its grotesque best.\"—\u003cb\u003eCrimeReads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[A] darkly glorious novel that rides the horrific undercurrents of a scientist-mother's dual devotion to her child and craft.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Impossibility of Crows\u003c\/i\u003e soaks fully in the chill waters of death and loss, the palimpsest of memories overwriting what we once knew. . . . It is well worth the time for those not faint of heart. Gothic horror is never a tired genre, and \u003ci\u003eCrows\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastic entry into it.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompulsive Reader\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A beautiful, poetic novel. . . . I feel like I know Agnes. I understand her. I understand her limitations, her longing, her drive for things she can't emotionally achieve.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePVD Horror\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Impossibility of Crows\u003c\/i\u003e functions as a Gothic reminder that, as Kirsten puts it, 'the things we bury do not stay dead.' . . . . For those who find relief in the shadows, Kirsten Kaschock's work offers a necessary, pleasurable dread.\"—\u003cb\u003eTerry Shepherd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What does it mean to love someone so completely that you would reshape the natural world for them? And what happens when that reshaping becomes its own kind of violence? These questions sit at the heart of Kirsten Kaschock's new novel \u003ci\u003eAn Impossibility of Crows\u003c\/i\u003e a book that takes the familiar terrain of maternal devotion and makes it strange, even terrifying.\"—\u003cb\u003eGinger Nuts of Horror\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Impossibility of Crows\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing and wholly original novel that scratched an itch I didn't even know I had. Ominous, profound and compulsively readable, a Gothic novel written in crystalline prose. A flat-out knockout.\"—\u003cb\u003eLaura Lippman\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A text of baleful beauty, like its monster, this book is somehow both achingly tender and ruthlessly unsentimental—and about the most sentimentalised aspects of our sadistic culture, too.\"—\u003cb\u003eChina Miéville\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePerdido Street Station\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn Impossibility of Crows\u003c\/i\u003e is, itself, impossibly lyric and ambitious, an \u003ci\u003eIliad \u003c\/i\u003eof parenting, of ambivalence, self-sacrifice and care. A divorce-poem and a tale of scientific obsession—tragic, feminist and sublime as Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, but quick-paced, wry and gorgeous for the 21st century.\"—\u003cb\u003eJordy Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Fox \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Night Night Fawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is an intensely moving exploration of the way we risk everything we have for the ones we love and still get it wrong. Agnes and Solo will power my heart for a long time. Every sentence of this novel gives more than I thought possible.\"—\u003cb\u003eJac Jemc\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpty Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Grip of It\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story of mothers, monsters, and the science of longing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this daring and evocative tale, Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father. Just a stone's throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small town of Letort, Pennsylvania is where the Krahn family has lived for six generations—bound by twisted folk wisdom and an uncanny kinship with the crows that loom over their land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Back in the grim farmhouse of her youth, Agnes is drawn into the strange legacy she tried to leave behind. When she discovers an abandoned nest in the barn, she becomes consumed by a scientific—and deeply personal—experiment: to breed a crow large and intelligent enough to carry her daughter, Mina, to a freedom Agnes has never known herself. As the bird grows, so does its terrifying potential—manifest in language, cunning, and a violent will of its own. What begins as a gesture of love and liberation turns darkly obsessive, echoing the dangerous ambition of Frankenstein’s monster and the generational trauma buried in the soil of her family’s past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A thoroughly modern, feminist novel, this is a story of mothers and daughters, inheritance and isolation, and the thin line between care and control. It confronts themes of self-harm and self-preservation, as well as memory and myth, in a narrative as visceral and uncanny as the bird that rises at its heart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1. An Experience of Crows\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Library of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Blot of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 4. An Ecstasy of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 5. An Utterance of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Development of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Confidence of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 8. A Fastening of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 9. A Hazard of Crows\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Solitude of Crows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702510940440,"sku":"9781625349255","price":14.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-impossibility-of-crows-a-novel-paperback-softback-9781625349255","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}