The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
By: Katya Apekina
4.08
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump …
Want to Read $ 10.49"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up at him and I was no longer me. I was Mom, but not as I knew her. This wasn't her forcing her darkness on me, like a bag over my head. No, this was something else. I'd become Mom from many years ago. Dad felt it too, I could tell. Maybe it would have lasted longer if not for Edie, talking and talking, pressing and pressing. She wanted to take me back to the other mother. The one in the mental hospital who needed me brought to her, tied and quartered, like a sacrifice."-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up at him and I was no longer me. I was Mom, but not as I knew her. This wasn't her forcing her darkness on me, like a bag over my head. No, this was something else. I'd become Mom from many years ago. Dad felt it too, I could tell. Maybe it would have lasted longer if not for Edie, talking and talking, pressing and pressing. She wanted to take me back to the other mother. The one in the mental hospital who needed me brought to her, tied and quartered, like a sacrifice."-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
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