The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

ABOUT * Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Finalist.* The Crook’s Corner Book Prize, Longlist.* VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, Finalist.* William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction, Shortlist.* 35 Over 35 Award.* A Best Book of 2018 —Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed News, Entropy, LitReactor, LitHub, The Book Table* One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall —Vulture, Harper's BAZAAR, BuzzFeed News, Publishers Weekly, The Millions, Bustle, Fast Company SynopsisIt’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, puddle of urine on the floor, 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 figu