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“All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.” – Torrey Peters, author of Stag Dance and Detransition Baby

From the author of the "vibrantly, brilliantly alive" (James Frankie Thomas) Still Life, a haunted family reenacts the violent night their lives changed forever.

Exactly 19 years ago, in May of 1992, 17-year-old Roland St. Cloud fatally stabbed his twin sister Edna’s three best friends. The slaying became instant tabloid fodder leading to a bestselling true-crime book and horror movie franchise. Each year on the anniversary of her family’s undoing, Edna reenacts the murders. She is joined by her husband, Roger, the night's definitive chronicler; her younger sister Calla, a failed playwright who spends her days lost in online gaming; her younger brother James and his girlfriend Heather; and her teenage daughter Wren. Together, the St. Cloud family seals the windows and doors of the house and lights a grim candle. After their macabre theatrics there's nothing to do but wait for dawn, talk among themselves, and remember.

All Us Saints is a literary family drama packaged as a two-act play. Behind the curtain, Packert Burke unveils Roland’s childhood as a closeted trans girl in the early 90s and offers a brilliant and scathing commentary on the cisgender gaze.

Critics Review

All Us Saints is a gorgeous puzzle-box of a book, with the pieces carved from dread, sex, and secrets. Katherine Packert Burke has inventively inverted the psycho-killer, revealing something new and, once again, shocking.
Torrey Peters, author of STAG DANCE and DETRANSITION BABY
Katherine Packert Burke is a genius. With incisive, irreverent prose and an encyclopedic knowledge of philosophy, theater, and film, she banishes commonplace narratives to masterfully capture the betrayals and succor of family, the snare of self-mythology, and the temptation, the danger, of the familiar within ritual and art. Utterly unforgettable, this book is both miracle and, dare I say it, haunting.
author of MANYWHERE
Like any good chamber piece, the ambitious, intelligent, and original All Us Saints somehow squeezes entire worlds into a single locale. With its mysterious rooms, unsolvable puzzles, and lifelike video games, Burke’s haunted house is a fascinating fractalization of horror, art, and identity by an author with the daring to approach true crime as genre fiction.
author of CASSANOVA 20
An original and brilliant book. I was dazzled by its inventive structure, delighted by its irreverent wit, and roused by its daring. Katherine Packert Burke is not afraid of darkness. Her bold curiosity cuts through constructed façades to expose the horrors of family and the stories told to keep haunted houses standing.
‘Pemi Aguda, author of GHOSTROOTS and ONE LEG ON EARTH
Written in two acts, with a dramatis personae and prologue, this story feels more expansive than a night in a single house has any right to be…The book unflinchingly examines each family member’s secrets and traumas and will appeal to readers who love true crime, literary-leaning mysteries, and houses haunted by their own inhabitants. With its messy web of well-crafted characters and astute commentary on the ways the cis gaze makes monsters of all those it doesn’t understand, All Us Saints is as uncomfortable as it is unputdownable.
Booklist
Author Katherine Packert Burke
Duration 5 hours and 30 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781639738137
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Family life fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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