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(0)Katya Apekina
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
It's 16-year-old Edie...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him...