The Stain by Rikki Ducornet raincoast A post–World War II childhood

A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child’s world of the imagination

Sweetest velvet little bag

Full of lush

The witchy women are Medusa's daughters indeed-their gaze kills

Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation

The Stain by Rikki Ducornet raincoast A post–World War II childhoodThe provocative, spellbinding debut novel, set in a village in the Loire Valley in the late 19th century, by prolific worldbuilder Rikki Ducornet. In The Stain, Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" ( Kirkus ), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy