The invited by jennifer mcmahon5/12/2023 While their homesteading adventure - being surrounded by nature, and living “off of the grid” and off of the land as much as possible - initially seems idyllic, this is no ordinary piece of land, with no ordinary bog. The plan is to build their dream home with their own hands in a clearing surrounded by pine forest, with a narrow path leading down to a bog. Happily married, yet both questioning their lives, they decide to shift gears, give up their teaching jobs, sell their suburban, Connecticut condo, and purchase forty-four acres of land in rural, Hartsboro, Vermont. The Invited opens with a gripping and viscerally-felt description of the fate, in 1924, of Hattie Breckenridge, an opening that grabs hold tightly, and immediately pulls the reader into this paranormal and horror-influenced tale.Ĭut to 2015, when we meet Helen and Nate Wetherell, a history teacher, and a science teacher, respectively, at a private, residential, middle school.
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