The possessions

Sara Flannery Murphy

earliest edition we have, 2017 Scribe Publications, 2017 368 pages

In an unnamed city, Edie works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as "bodies", wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits--numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. Edie has been with the company for five years, an unusual record. Her suc...

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The Possessions paperback · 2018 · Harper Perennial · 384 pages · 9780062458384
The Possessions edition · 2017 · Scribe Publications · 368 pages · 9781911344032
Possessions hardcover · 2017 · Arctis Verlag · 9783038800033
Possessions edition · 2017 · Scribe Publications · 368 pages · 9781925321913

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