How Not to Drown
A Novel
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April 15, 2021
Everything about Gavin has been problematic, and now his suspicious drowning off the coast of Maine sends his wife to prison. Their 12-year-old daughter, Heaven, is sent to live with Gavin's spiky mother, Amelia, a former model clinging to vestiges of glamour like a life jacket while begrudgingly caring for her agoraphobic older son, Daniel, who nearly drowned as a boy. Stoic and resourceful, Heaven finds solace in water and is determined, in spite of being bullied at her new school, to make the swim team. Daniel regales her with stories about their Isle of Skye heritage and selkies, mythological seal folk, while one of the novel's irresistible narrators is an ancestor, young Maggie MacQueen, who is forced from her home during the Highland Clearances and disappears in a shipwreck. Wriston (Vanishing Acts, 2018) is utterly entrancing in her fourth novel, imaginatively exploring regrets, grief, obsessions, and love with fluent empathy and mordant humor. Improvising on her haunting signature themes--family conflicts, resilient young women, brokenness, the sea, and mystical beings--Wriston offers a complexly evocative, bittersweet, and richly involving tale.
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