Things We Found When the Water Went Down (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781646221691)

In this dark and ethereal debut novel, a young woman tries to make sense of strange artifacts and unsettling memories in an effort to find her mother--missing since being accused of murder

When brutish miner Hugo Mitchum is found murdered on the frozen shore of a North Country lake, the local officials and town gossips of Beau Caelais are quick to blame Marietta Abernathy, outspoken environmental activist and angry, witchy recluse. But Marietta herself has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Living on an isolated island with her father, Marietta's sixteen-year-old daughter, Lena, begins sifting through her mother's journals and collected oddities in an attempt to find her. While her father's grief threatens to consume him and her adoptive aunt Bea reckons with guilt and acceptance, it is the haunting town outcast Ellis Olsen who might have the most to lose if Lena fails to find her mother.

A Nordic eco-noir shot through with magical realism, Things We Found When the Water Went Down examines power, identity, and myth in a story that asks us to explore what it means to heal--or not--after violence.

Author: Tegan Nia Swanson
ISBN-10: 1646221699
ISBN-13: 9781646221691
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 5
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 10/10/2022
Foreword 10/27/2022
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 48