Name: An Impossibility of Crows. A Novel
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Author: Kirsten Kaschock
ISBN: 9781625349255

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Author

Kirsten Kaschock

Collection

Juniper Prize for Fiction

Year

2026

Pages

248

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.60 x 14.00 cm

ISBN13

9781625349255

An Impossibility of Crows. A Novel

Kirsten Kaschock (Author) · University of Massachusetts Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "An Impossibility of Crows. A Novel"

A story of mothers, monsters, and the science of longing In this daring and evocative tale, Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father. Just a stone's throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small town of Letort, Pennsylvania is where the Krahn family has lived for six generations—bound by twisted folk wisdom and an uncanny kinship with the crows that loom over their land. Back in the grim farmhouse of her youth, Agnes is drawn into the strange legacy she tried to leave behind. When she discovers an abandoned nest in the barn, she becomes consumed by a scientific—and deeply personal—experiment: to breed a crow large and intelligent enough to carry her daughter, Mina, to a freedom Agnes has never known herself. As the bird grows, so does its terrifying potential—manifest in language, cunning, and a violent will of its own. What begins as a gesture of love and liberation turns darkly obsessive, echoing the dangerous ambition of Frankenstein’s monster and the generational trauma buried in the soil of her family’s past. A thoroughly modern, feminist novel, this is a story of mothers and daughters, inheritance and isolation, and the thin line between care and control. It confronts themes of self-harm and self-preservation, as well as memory and myth, in a narrative as visceral and uncanny as the bird that rises at its heart.