Strange things. Brown E., Ritter K.

Clever Elkin lives in the world of miracles on the border of the eleven united states. She dreams of life full of romance and adventure, she wants to collect amazing wonders, like her late mother. But the father - the doctor and pragmatist to the brain of the bones - teaches her to "treat the body that you see in front of you." Abroad of the States is the French Louisiana, the rival of its young country and the source of constantly growing tension, the threat to their peaceful mountain village... And not only.

Father Clover dies, protecting it from criminals, and his last words force the girl Go in search of a curiosity that can untie the war... or end it. On the way, Clover meets a speaker, a cheerful trick that sells a dubious drug, and a hat that collects other people's secrets. The girl’s killers are chasing the girl and hand-sewn monsters-“parasites” belonging to the most terrible inhabitant of these harsh and dangerous places. The smart, brave and decisive clover Elkin is an unforgettable heroine, and her country with all miracles and horrors, heroism and betrayal, is a grotesque version of America of the 19th century.