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THE HOUSE OF DEEP WATER
At once big-hearted, searing, and insightful, THE HOUSE OF DEEP WATER is a moving debut novel about three women and one small town transformed by trauma, love, loss, and a new understanding of what we all owe to our shared past.
River Bend, Michigan, isn't a destination of any sort - there are those who couldn't imagine leaving, and those who can't seem to get out. But when a scandal rocks the sleepy town and three women return home, secrets that have long been buried begin to rise.
Linda Williams isn't quite sure what she wants, but as she comes back to River Bend, she knows it wasn't the suburban Texas life she shared with her former husband.
Linda's mother, Paula, does know what she wants: Paula wants out of River Bend for good, but she'll need to stick around town a while to formalize a divorce from her long-estranged husband to do it.
And Beth DeWitt Hansen, a newly single mother and one of the only black women to grow up in River Bend, arrives back at her father's house with her two teenaged children, hopeful that she'll find her feet again, even as her return stirs up dark and haunting memories.
To find a way forward, all three women must contend with River Bend's complicated past.
A small-town story simmering with longing, anger, and fierce pride, and punctuated with a heartbreaking series of coming-of-age vignettes, THE HOUSE OF DEEP WATER is a powerfully written novel told through the voices of mothers and daughters, of husbands, lovers, and fathers, about how the stories we tell ourselves shape who we are - and who it is we can still become.
Jeni McFarland holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston, where she was a fiction editor at Gulf Coast Magazine. She is an alum of Tin House and a 2016 Kimbilio Fellow and has had short fiction published in Crack the Spine, Forge, and Spry. She is the recipient of the storySouth Million Writers Award and was a finalist for the 2015 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction from the Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. She lives in San Francisco.
Linda Williams isn't quite sure what she wants, but as she comes back to River Bend, she knows it wasn't the suburban Texas life she shared with her former husband.
Linda's mother, Paula, does know what she wants: Paula wants out of River Bend for good, but she'll need to stick around town a while to formalize a divorce from her long-estranged husband to do it.
And Beth DeWitt Hansen, a newly single mother and one of the only black women to grow up in River Bend, arrives back at her father's house with her two teenaged children, hopeful that she'll find her feet again, even as her return stirs up dark and haunting memories.
To find a way forward, all three women must contend with River Bend's complicated past.
A small-town story simmering with longing, anger, and fierce pride, and punctuated with a heartbreaking series of coming-of-age vignettes, THE HOUSE OF DEEP WATER is a powerfully written novel told through the voices of mothers and daughters, of husbands, lovers, and fathers, about how the stories we tell ourselves shape who we are - and who it is we can still become.
Jeni McFarland holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston, where she was a fiction editor at Gulf Coast Magazine. She is an alum of Tin House and a 2016 Kimbilio Fellow and has had short fiction published in Crack the Spine, Forge, and Spry. She is the recipient of the storySouth Million Writers Award and was a finalist for the 2015 Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction from the Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. She lives in San Francisco.
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Published 2020-04-21 by Putnam |