Her name is Ligeia Mosely, a Florida runaway sent to live with her uncle and aunt to protect her from “bad influences.” Seventeen years old with red hair, aqua eyes and a perfect complexion, she appears one day in 1969, a vision in a green bikini, at the favorite fishing spot of teenage brothers Eugene and Bill Matney.
Set free by decades of rain that wear away her grave on the banks of a creek in Sylva, N.C., what remains of a long-dead girl, wrapped in a tarp for 46 years “spills into the stream and is free.” “She is waiting,” a voice tells us, “she is patient.” Ron Rash opens his haunting new novel with a near-mythic resurrection.
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