The Stain fidelity rather than of fathers and

rather than of fathers and sons

the publication of Blue Lard led to public demonstrations against the book and demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer

very much worth discovering

By Karen Elizabeth Gordon

if only temporarily

The Stain fidelity rather than of fathers andBy Rikki Ducornet Afterword by the author ISBN: 9781628975659 Publication Date: 2 4 2025 The provocative, spellbinding debut novel, set in a village in the Loire Valley in the late 19th century, by prolific worldbuilder Rikki Ducornet. In The Stain, Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals,