LAVENDER BLUE

In the late 1930s, on the Ojibwe Indian reservation of Red Earth, Minnesota, a Native American girl died deep in the heart of winter at the Catholic boarding school Our Holy Mother of Sorrows. According to legend, she was possessed by a spirit, but it was no devil or demon the priests and sisters had ever known. It spoke in a native language older than any in the village and it had an unquenchable hunger for human flesh. The girl died deep in the blizzards and the legend remains to this day. In the present, Reese, Jack and Paige Pradly live 80 miles northwest of Red Earth in Hallock, Minnesota. Through the years, Reese has suffered from night terrors, sleepwalking and bedwetting. Over time, with years of counseling and treatment, Reese has shown improvement. The family is happy. Reese became a confident, well-adjusted young woman. Possibly cured. But, as winter descends, something in the air has brought her symptoms back. In her sleeplessness, Reese continues to try to open the front door of their home. “Momma . . .” she continues to whisper. -- 'LAVENDER BLUE' is a guttural and shattering work; a pulsing, concussive and feral thing. Equal parts lunacy, possession and supernatural, 'LAVENDER BLUE' is a story that loses itself to winding twists of labyrinthine madness, phobic despair, unrelenting dread and rarely used supernatural forces of Native origin. Deliberately raw and profane, John Huber proves that he is absolutely fearless in his attempts to shatter you with an offering that will be difficult to top.

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