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Kathryn Harrison

Biography

Kathryn Harrison

Kathryn Harrison has written the novels THICKER THAN WATER, EXPOSURE, POISON, THE BINDING CHAIR, THE SEAL WIFE, ENVY and ENCHANTMENTS. Her autobiographical work includes THE KISS, SEEKING RAPTURE, THE ROAD TO SANTIAGO, THE MOTHER KNOT and TRUE CRIMES. She has written two biographies, SAINT THERESE OF LISIEUX and JOAN OF ARC, and a book of true crime, WHILE THEY SLEPT: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison.

Kathryn Harrison

Books by Kathryn Harrison

The Binding Chair: Or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
by Kathryn Harrison

In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future.

Poison
by Kathryn Harrison

Set in 17th-century Spain and narrated with hypnotic intensity, Poison is the story of two women, born on the same day, whose lives run a parallel, tragic course. The terror of Spain's Inquisition, the tyranny of superstition, the rapture of religious fervor and the intrigue of the king's court form the backdrop of this rich, mesmerizing novel.