In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.
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