Things We Found When The Water Went Down

Things We Found When The Water Went Down
Tegan Nia Swanson
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Trade Paperback
h228 x 152mm - 256pg
6 Dec 2022 US
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9781646221691
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When brutish miner Hugo Mitchum is found murdered on the frozen shore of a North Country lake, Beau Caelais' s local officials and town gossips alike are quick to blame Marietta Abernathy, outspoken environmental activist and angry, witchy recluse. But Marietta herself has disappeared under mysterious circumstances during a blizzard. 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. Part eco-Nordic noir, part magical realist examination of power, identity, and myth, Things We Found When the Water Went Down is a story that asks us to explore what it means to heal - or not - after violence.
A Library Journal Most Anticipated Fall Debut "Things We Found When the Water Went Down is an ethereal, mixed media mystery novel about what we lose when the strongest, most vulnerable among us are made to disappear. " -Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews (starred review) "Atmospheric . . . Though Swanson' s novel includes news stories, police interviews, and other elements of a detective story, it resists easy categorization. Swanson shifts from footnoted just-the-facts police interviews to lyrical prose poems to visual collages; the cast of characters is similarly diverse . . . An inventive and beguiling debut. " -Kirkus Reviews "Tegan Nia Swanson' s debut is a multi-faceted excavation of inherited trauma in both the spiritual and physical world that asks if regrowth is possible after immolation and offers no easy answers. In shifting forms and propulsive language, she captures the impossibility of history, the fierce pride of so-called otherness, and the dream of a gentler world. Immersive, heartbreaking, and cathartic. " -Julia Fine, author of The Upstairs House "With the inspiration of passion and heightened attention (which some define as prayer) to her characters and setting, Tegan Swanson has written something entirely original and utterly fearless. Things We Found When the Water Went Down is an unforgettable literary experience that is more akin to being sucked down through a tube into a slightly different reality than it is to ' reading' a book. On this journey, the traveler' s heart stills, quickens, dives, ascends, and with each page, becomes wiser. I' ve never quite read anything like it. This book is a joy and an illumination. " -Rick Bass, author of The Watch, The Hermit' s Story, and All the Land That Holds Us "Is Tegan Nia Swanson a novelist, poet, collagist, puzzle-master, or sorceress? Is this book a northern noir or an eco-thriller or a mosaic colored by magical realism? These are the questions raised by a dazzlingly original talent and story. Things We Found When the Water Went Down is a cerebral, lyrical, beautiful, mysterious defiance. " -Benjamin Percy, author of The Unfamiliar Garden, The Ninth Metal, and Thrill Me
TEGAN NIA SWANSON is an advocate, educator, artist, gardener, and UU-Buddhist, most at home while in or near large bodies of water, or walking under the canopies of many trees. Things We Found When the Water Went Down is her first novel.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781646221691
Published: 6 Dec 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Catapult
Publisher: Catapult
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 256

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