The House of Dying Stars
I. The heat in Mississippi does not simply exist. It presses. It sits on your chest like a heavy hand, and it breathes, and you breathe with it, and you learn to accept that you will never be cool again. Clara Whitfield arrived at the estate on a Monday in June 1954, carrying a single suitcase and a letter from her father telling her to "handle whatever needs handling." She was nineteen years...
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