02480cam a2200277 i 4500 771722790 TxAuBib 20191114120000.0 190107s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019000597 9781937512750 PAP 16.99 1937512754 PAP 16.99 NjBwBT eng NjBwBT rda TxAuBib rda Apekina, Katya, author. The deeper the water the uglier the fish [Book] / a novel by Katya Apekina. Columbus, Ohio : Two Dollar Radio, [2018] 353 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It’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 figure on the other side of success. The girls, grieving and homesick, are at first wary of their father’s affection, but soon Mae and Edie’s close relationship begins to fall apart—Edie remains fiercely loyal to Marianne, convinced that Dennis is responsible for her mother’s downfall, while Mae, suffocated by her striking resemblances to her mother, feels pulled toward their father. The girls move in increasingly opposing and destructive directions as they struggle to cope with outsized pain, and as the history of Dennis and Marianne’s romantic past clicks into focus, the family fractures further. oving 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. 20191114. Sisters Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Suicidal behavior Fiction.