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Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Author: Katya Apekina
ISBN: 9781937512750
Fiction, Thriller
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
by
Katya Apekina
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish by
Katya Apekina
Reviews
"Apekina's inventiveness with structure and sentence marks the book's every page, and the result is a propulsive and electrifying look at how family--and art--can both break people and put them back together again. A dark and unforgettable first book."
Kirkus Reviews
Summary
It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother’s dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father, Dennis, a former civil rights activist and literary figure on the other side of success.
Moving through a selection of first-person accounts and written with a sinister sense of humor, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish powerfully captures the quiet torment of two sisters craving the attention of a parent they can’t, and shouldn’t, have to themselves. In this captivating debut, Katya Apekina disquietingly crooks the lines between fact and fantasy, between escape and freedom, and between love and obsession.
