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THE LAST LIST OF MISS JUDITH KRATT
Judith, Quincy, and Rosemarie Kratt once had the run of their small textile town of Bound, South Carolina. Their father owned Kratt Mercantile Company, a successful department store on Main Street. Judith managed the store inventory and led occasional tours of the property, while Quincy bartered in town gossip, buying and selling secrets to ingratiate himself to their father. Rosemarie was the town beauty.
All of that changed on one fateful evening in 1929, when Quincy paid the ultimate price for a secret too consequential to stay hidden for longand when Rosemarie fled the town, never to be seen again.
Never to be seen again, that is, until now.
Decades later, Judith and Olvaa black woman who has lived with the Kratts since childhood, occupying the unsettling space between family member and one of the helphave built a quiet, uneventful existence for themselves on the grounds of the formerly elegant Kratt family estate. When Judith receives a postcard from Rosemarie that reads only, Sister, I am coming home, she knows that existence is about to be upended. In an anxious attempt to retain some semblance of control over the house and its histories, she begins writing an inventory of the Kratt family heirlooms, from the Tiffany lamp that heralded the arrival of electricity in Bound to the Purdey shotgun that Quincy inherited just days before his death. But the truth Rosemarie seems determined to finally tell threatens everything about life as Judith has known itand threatens to expose the lifetime of secrets that she and Olva had hoped to take to their graves.
THE LAST LIST OF MISS JUDITH KRATT recalls the Southern lyricism, dark family secrets, and suspenseful storytelling of Wiley Cash's The Land More Kind Than Home and of M.O. Walsh's My Sunshine Away, with no small shades of Kathryn Stockett's The Help and a protagonist who is a Southern cousin to Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge. Like the Kratt siblings, Andrea Bobotis was born and raised in South Carolina. She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Virginia, and her essays have appeared in journals and book collections such as Victorian Studies and the Irish University Review. Her short story Kudzu won second place in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest in 2015, and in 2014, THE LAST LIST OF MISS JUDITH KRATT was the runner-up for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She now lives in Denver, where she teaches with the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
All of that changed on one fateful evening in 1929, when Quincy paid the ultimate price for a secret too consequential to stay hidden for longand when Rosemarie fled the town, never to be seen again.
Never to be seen again, that is, until now.
Decades later, Judith and Olvaa black woman who has lived with the Kratts since childhood, occupying the unsettling space between family member and one of the helphave built a quiet, uneventful existence for themselves on the grounds of the formerly elegant Kratt family estate. When Judith receives a postcard from Rosemarie that reads only, Sister, I am coming home, she knows that existence is about to be upended. In an anxious attempt to retain some semblance of control over the house and its histories, she begins writing an inventory of the Kratt family heirlooms, from the Tiffany lamp that heralded the arrival of electricity in Bound to the Purdey shotgun that Quincy inherited just days before his death. But the truth Rosemarie seems determined to finally tell threatens everything about life as Judith has known itand threatens to expose the lifetime of secrets that she and Olva had hoped to take to their graves.
THE LAST LIST OF MISS JUDITH KRATT recalls the Southern lyricism, dark family secrets, and suspenseful storytelling of Wiley Cash's The Land More Kind Than Home and of M.O. Walsh's My Sunshine Away, with no small shades of Kathryn Stockett's The Help and a protagonist who is a Southern cousin to Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge. Like the Kratt siblings, Andrea Bobotis was born and raised in South Carolina. She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Virginia, and her essays have appeared in journals and book collections such as Victorian Studies and the Irish University Review. Her short story Kudzu won second place in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest in 2015, and in 2014, THE LAST LIST OF MISS JUDITH KRATT was the runner-up for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She now lives in Denver, where she teaches with the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
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