For her debut book, THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND, Christa Carmen won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. A great thrill for a young gothic author. In this interview Christa talks about the fun of winning that award and the excitement of discovering an unknown story about Edgar Allen Poe and the woman he courted: Sarah Helen Whitman, the 19th Century poet and spiritualist.
With that story in mind, Christa has written a gripping novel filled with secrets with lush, haunting prose. History meets a riveting modern story of a widow, Saoirse, who moves into Sarah’s house in Providence. I love that Irish name—it is pronounced “sur-shuh” which mean freedom. A bit of a hint, perhaps? I wonder if there is a basement in this old house…
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