The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice Valentine Seasonal author of The Water Knife

author of The Water Knife

an unnamed narrator inherits a collection of banned memories from her Mindbank so dangerous that even possessing them places his freedom in jeopardy

and his novels A Grain of Wheat

From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia (Sunday Times)

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The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice Valentine Seasonal author of The Water KnifeBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthonybefore even Lizzie Bordenthere was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nations debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty four year old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to