Mr Splitfoot

Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt, 322 pages.
The novel veers back and forth between a couple of genres, starting off as a tale of two orphans being raised on some weird combination of orphanage and cult, to something near horror, as a weird, off-kilter ghost story. Nat and Ruth were always looking out for each other when they were young and living on the farm. Something separated them when they got older and the next time we see Ruth she's older, mute and leading her pregnant niece on a strange cross-country walking tour.
Strange and kind of wonderfully fun.