Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches BOTY_2025 days and months of the

days and months of the year

a surprising delight of a novel

raised by her alcoholic father

A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man’s obsession and coping mechanism

Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches BOTY_2025 days and months of theLizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one. The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and