Anima Rising

From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist,a famous painterand an undead woman’s electrifying journey of self-discovery. Vienna1911. Gustav Klimtthe most famous painter in the Austrian Empirethe darling of Viennese societyspots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policemanbut he can’t resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he drawsthe woman coughs. She’s alive! Back at his studioKlimt and his model-turned-muse Wally tend to the formerly-drowned girl. She’s nearly feral and doesn’t remember who she isor how she came to be floating in the canal. Klimt names her Judithafter one of his most famous paintingsand resolves to help her find her memory. With a little help from Sigmund Freud and Carl JungJudith recalls being stranded in the arctic one hundred years agolocked in a crate by a man named Victor Frankensteinand visiting the Underworld. So how did she get here? And why are so many people chasing herincluding Geoffthe giant croissant-eating devil dog of the North? Poor Things meets Bride of Frankenstein in Anima RisingChristopher Moore’s most ingenious (and probably most hilarious) novel yet.