The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk Holiday award-winning author Marta McDowell explores

award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing

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• Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty

”—Stacy Schiff

and entire ecosystems

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk Holiday award-winning author Marta McDowell exploresSeptember 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Grbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the