{"product_id":"all-us-saints-a-novel","title":"All Us Saints: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.” – Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition Baby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the \"vibrantly, brilliantly alive\" (James Frankie Thomas) Still Life, a haunted family reenacts the violent night their lives changed forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExactly 19 years ago, in May of 1992, 17-year-old Roland St. Cloud fatally stabbed his twin sister Edna's three best friends. The slaying became instant tabloid fodder leading to a bestselling true-crime book and horror movie franchise. Each year on the anniversary of her family's undoing, Edna reenacts the murders. She is joined by her husband, Roger, the night's definitive chronicler; her younger sister Calla, a failed playwright who spends her days lost in online gaming; her younger brother James and his girlfriend Heather; and her teenage daughter Wren. Together, the St. Cloud family seals the windows and doors of the house and lights a grim candle. After their macabre theatrics there's nothing to do but wait for dawn, talk among themselves, and remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll Us Saints is a literary family drama packaged as a two-act play. Behind the curtain, Packert Burke unveils Roland's childhood as a closeted trans girl in the early 90s and offers a brilliant and scathing commentary on the cisgender gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Federal Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51817994617120,"sku":"9781639738113","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/3811\/8247\/files\/9781639738113.jpg?v=1781114254","url":"https:\/\/federalstreetbooks.com\/products\/all-us-saints-a-novel","provider":"Federal Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}