The magnetic girl : a novel /
Handler, Jessica,
The magnetic girl : a novel / Jessica Handler. - 269 pages ; 25 cm
In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father's bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection. Lulu begins to "captivate" her friends and family, controlling their thoughts and actions for brief moments at a time. After Lulu convinces a cousin she conducts electricity with her touch, her father sees a unique opportunity. He grooms his tall and indelicate daughter into an electrifying new woman: The Magnetic Girl. Lulu travels the Eastern seaboard, captivating enthusiastic crowds by lifting grown men in parlor chairs and throwing them across the stage with her "electrical charge."
9781938235481 1938235487
2018031294
GBB925500 bnb
019244906 Uk
Hurst, Lulu, 1869-1950 --Fiction.
Entertainers--United States--Fiction.
Psychics--United States--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
The magnetic girl : a novel / Jessica Handler. - 269 pages ; 25 cm
In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father's bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection. Lulu begins to "captivate" her friends and family, controlling their thoughts and actions for brief moments at a time. After Lulu convinces a cousin she conducts electricity with her touch, her father sees a unique opportunity. He grooms his tall and indelicate daughter into an electrifying new woman: The Magnetic Girl. Lulu travels the Eastern seaboard, captivating enthusiastic crowds by lifting grown men in parlor chairs and throwing them across the stage with her "electrical charge."
9781938235481 1938235487
2018031294
GBB925500 bnb
019244906 Uk
Hurst, Lulu, 1869-1950 --Fiction.
Entertainers--United States--Fiction.
Psychics--United States--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.