The unmothers - leslie j. anderson

In this raw and lyrical folk horror novel wrapped in a murder mystery, a journalist sent to a small town begins to unravel a dark secret that the women of the town have been keeping for generations.

Marshall is still trying to put the pieces together after the death of her husband.

After she is involved in a terrible accident, her editor sends her to the small, backwards town of Raeford to investigate a clearly ridiculous rumor: that a horse has given birth to a healthy, human baby boy.

When Marshall arrives in Raeford, she finds an insular town that is kinder to the horses they are famous for breeding than to their own people.

But when two horribly mangled bodies are discovered in a field--one a horse, one a human--she realizes that there might be a real story here.

As shes pulled deeper into the town and its guarded people, her sense of reality is tipped on its head.

Is she losing her grip? Or is this impossible story the key to a dark secret that has haunted the women of Raeford for generations? For the horse girl in all of us, this atmospheric tale of female rage, bodily autonomy, and generational trauma will haunt readers long after theyve turned the final page.