Jessica Handler is the author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing about Grief and Invisible Sisters: A Memoir, which was named one of the "Twenty-Five Books All Georgians Should Read" and Atlanta magazine's "Best Memoir of 2009." Jessica writes essays and nonfiction features that have appeared on NPR, in Tin House, Drunken Boat, Full Grown People, Brevity, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and More magazine.
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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 ... SEE MORE