Stakes: A memoir Science Essays & Commentary for fans of Eloise and

for fans of Eloise and Olivia

Thomas Edison

collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy

As an unruly teenager starting to get into mischief Sam's parents and teachers struck an unusual deal

Stakes: A memoir Science Essays & Commentary for fans of Eloise andA darkly funny, sparkling follow up to the author's bestselling memoir, Grand. You have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire's badness in the house with you. Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker's Dracula. The vampire is a risk free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire. Twenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own