The Drowning Girl

by Caitlín R. Kiernan

First published 2012

India Morgan Phelps goes by Imp. She has schizophrenia. Her mind betrays her now, and she cannot trust what she remembers. Her memories have turned against her, making her question who she really is. Imp faces her own perceptions as enemies. She must find the truth about what she encountered. Was it a malevolent siren? Was it a lost wolf that appeared as a wild young woman? Or was it neither of these things but something far stranger? Something that moves through the gaps between what is real and what is not. Imp struggles to separate fact from delusion while confronting forces that exist in the spaces reality cannot touch.

Genres: literary-fiction, mystery, fantasy, horror, contemporary, psychological-thriller

Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: supernatural, unreliable-narrator

332 pages · Paperback · Penguin Publishing Group

Content warnings: mental-illness

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