A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal-one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency. Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals-or 'Cures'-by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a...