![]() ![]() Picture the Dead, written by Adele Griffin and illustrated by Lisa Brown, intertwines the interest in spiritualism that was rampant during the American Civil War with the story of soldiers who fought in the war and the families they left behind. ![]() Deciphering the meaning of what she sees may just save her life. When the family turns to a spiritualist photographer to help calm their grief, Jennie begins to feel her fiancé is trying to send a message through the prints made. Jennie’s cousin Quinn seems to be harboring a secret about his brother’s death, and his own wounding in combat. She doesn’t know what she’ll do if they put her out. The aunt and uncle who have taken her in-never overly warm towards her- have fallen on hard times. Her parents died, her twin brother was killed fighting in the Civil War, and now her fiancé/cousin has also fallen on the battlefield. ![]() Jennie Lovell has suffered much tragedy in her 16 years. ![]()
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