One Morning

PREORDER: BOOK TO BE PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 9th

The land around Gour Borough, Pennsylvania, seeps and oozes with the poisonous cast-offs from generations of industrial mining. The town—long abandoned by the companies which have taken everything—lurches, settles, and crumbles toward oblivion. Over the course of a fateful morning, twelve women will find their lives inexplicably entwined, as their actions, reactions, and inactions tick toward an ultimate end.

These women—taxidermist, shepherdess, and huntress; mother, wife, and sister; innocent, orphan, and dreamer; hostage, murderer, and seer—have one final chance to address all the pain and hurt and unfulfilled desires in their lives.

It won't be enough . . .

PRAISE

“Don’t read this book alone in an isolated cabin in the woods. ”
—Aurealis

“This elegantly told and thought-provoking work deserves a wide audience.”
—Publishers’ Weekly

“Disturbing, poignant and alive with the beauty of human strug- gle trapped in economic runoff, One Morning is a page-turner that ends up haunting the reader.”
—Rick Kleffel @ Narrative Species

“Twelve chilling stories told over twelve hours in real time, One Morning digs under the skin of a Pennsylvania coal mining town to show you the shadows dancing hellishly underneath. Beautiful, brutal, with a strong savage heart.”
—Paul Jessup, author of Daughter of the Wormwood Star

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jessica Hagy is an artist and writer whose work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has been featured in Wired, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes. One Morning explores the intersection of the natural and unnatural, the uncanny and the weird. It asks what it means to be both human and haunted in a land we have irrevocably changed.