The Pecan Children

For fans of The Midnight Library and Swamplandia! comes a breathtaking story of magical realism about two sisters, deeply tied to their small Southern town, fighting to break free of the darkness swallowing the land whole.

In the struggling town of Clearwater, Arkansas, the annual pecan harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak. But even as families are forced to sell their orchards and move away, Lil Clearwater refuses to let go of the land her family has been rooted to for generations. She feels a connection to the earth that goes deeper than memory—which is why she reluctantly accepts her sister Sasha’s return to the fold after so long away.

It should be a time of joyful reconnection, yet it isn’t long before things take a dark turn. There is rot hiding beneath the surface, and hungry eyes that watch them from the dark. As phantom fires begin to light up the night and troubling local folklore is revealed to be all too true, the sisters—confronted with the ghosts of their pasts—come to the stark realization that in the kudzu-choked South, nothing is ever as it seems.