House of Hearts

"""House of Hearts is as hot, strange, and heartbreaking as the Mojave at high noon. Compulsively readable, with a heroine whose voice we need now, this is a novel that will teach you how to survive.” —Lisa Locascio​ Nighthawk​, ​​author of ​Open Me ""House of Hearts…is remarkably beautiful, unpredictably strange, and startling in a way that is impossible to anticipate. [Her themes tread familiar ground: the traumas that roil through a body in grief; the darkly unsafe sorceries that bedevil a soul into being; and the burden of love’s ancient curse, which is the sacrifice that every god demands. For sometimes delusions aren’t delusions at all and if we think we’re chasing ghosts, we’re wrong. The ghosts are hunting us. ]The wisdom of this novel is absolute. What hurts is also what heals. The blessing is the wound. It isn’t myth that makes us, it’s the other way around.  And the only path past pain cuts straight through hell. You simply must read this book.” —Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau “The desert is alive with story, with terror, with myth, with wonder, and Francesca Lia Block has planted a House of Hearts there. Come in if you dare, but you might not make it back out."" —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians ""A lushly sensory page-turner that will satisfy Block fans and create new ones— I was swept up in the story but also paused, with pleasure, to savor the way this writer captures, again and again, the overwhelmingly gorgeous and frightening Southern California landscape."" —Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade"