An Impossibility of Crows

An Impossibility of Crows - Paperback

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An Impossibility of Crows - Paperback

An Impossibility of Crows - Paperback

by Kirsten Kaschock
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by Kirsten Kaschock (Author)

A story of mothers, monsters, and the science of longing

In this daring and evocative tale, Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father. Just a stone's throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small town of Letort, Pennsylvania is where the Krahn family has lived for six generations--bound by twisted folk wisdom and an uncanny kinship with the crows that loom over their land.

Back in the grim farmhouse of her youth, Agnes is drawn into the strange legacy she tried to leave behind. When she discovers an abandoned nest in the barn, she becomes consumed by a scientific--and deeply personal--experiment: to breed a crow large and intelligent enough to carry her daughter, Mina, to a freedom Agnes has never known herself. As the bird grows, so does its terrifying potential--manifest in language, cunning, and a violent will of its own. What begins as a gesture of love and liberation turns darkly obsessive, echoing the dangerous ambition of Frankenstein's monster and the generational trauma buried in the soil of her family's past.

A thoroughly modern, feminist novel, this is a story of mothers and daughters, inheritance and isolation, and the thin line between care and control. It confronts themes of self-harm and self-preservation, as well as memory and myth, in a narrative as visceral and uncanny as the bird that rises at its heart.

Author Biography

KIRSTEN KASCHOCK, a Pew Fellow in the Arts and Summer Literary Seminars grand prize winner, is the author of one previous novel, Sleight, and six poetry collections: Unfathoms, A Beautiful Name for a Girl, The Dottery, Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer, Explain This Corpse (Lynx House Press), and AutoPortrait (as flotsam).

Number of Pages: 248
Dimensions: 0.68 x 8.46 x 5.63 IN
Publication Date: March 03, 2026
ISBN9781625349255
Author Kirsten Kaschock
PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
GenreLiterature and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages248
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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KIRSTEN KASCHOCK, a Pew Fellow in the Arts and Summer Literary Seminars grand prize winner, is the author of one previous novel, Sleight, and six poetry collections: Unfathoms, A Beautiful Name for a Girl, The Dottery, Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer, Explain This Corpse (Lynx House Press), and AutoPortrait (as flotsam).

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