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The Open Curtain

By: Brian Evenson
Narrated by: Neil Shah
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A taut, otherworldly, and moving literary thriller investigating the contemporary aftermath of Mormonism’s shrouded and violent past.

When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice and its role in a 1902 murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his newly discovered half brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual.

As the past and the present become an increasingly tangled knot, Rudd is found—with minor injuries and few memories—at the scene of a multiple murder on a remote campsite. Lyndi, the daughter of the victims, tries to help Rudd recover his memory, and together, they find a strength unique to survivors of terrible tragedies. But Rudd, desperate to protect Lyndi and unable to let the past be still, tries to manipulate their Mormon wedding ceremony to trick the priests (and God) by giving himself and Lyndi secret new names—names that match the killer and the victim in the 100-year-old murder. The nightmare has just begun....

©2006, 2016 Brian Evenson (P)2022 Audible, Inc.
Crime Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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As with all Evenson’s best work there is a shifting, surreal, discomfort about this book but his passion for existence and humour erupt into the novel too. Accessibly written, the language is straightforward but impossible to pin down.

Brian Evenson - one of my favourite writers

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