She has published seven collections of poetry and seven. Where Now: New and Selected Poems Starting at 1.45. Laura Kasischke teaches in the University of Michigan MFA program and the Residential College. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Eligible for Free Shipping Expedited Shipping Available Item Condition. Read reviews and buy The Raising - by Laura Kasischke (Paperback) at Target. Mira has been so busy with her babies-two of them, twins, the most perfect boys you could imagine but still a nearly impossible amount of work even with Clark's help-that she can barely keep herself together to teach (Death, Dying and the Undead), let alone write the book she'll need to publish for tenure.Īnd Shelly, who was the first person at the scene of the accident, has given up calling the newspapers to tell them that, despite the 'lake of blood' in which they keep reporting the victim was found, the girl Shelly saw that night was not bloody, and not dead. The Raising: Novel by Laura Kasischke Write The First Customer Review. Perry, Craig's roommate, is working through his own grief (he grew up with Nicole, after all, and had known her since kindergarten) by auditing Professor Polson's sociology class: Death, Dying, and the Undead. It's fall again, a new semester, a fresh start.Ĭraig, who has not been charged with murder, is focusing on his classes, and also on avoiding Nicole's sorority sisters, who seem to blame him for her death even though the police did not. A blonde and beautiful prom queen and straight-A student, Nicole was a prized sister in the most powe. Sweet-tempered, all-American, a former Girl Scout, and a virgin. Last semester, Nicole Werner was killed in a car accident. Nicole was a straight-A student from a small town. How does Laura Kasischke’s eighth novel, The Raising, throw so many darts at the dartboard of horror clichés and still wring out a shiver By cross-breeding thrills with a commonplace college. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl.

Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl. From critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling author Laura Kasischke comes a new novel that is part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unputdownable.

The Raising by Laura Kasischke