The Sign for Drowning by Rachel Stolzman

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'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Choose your shipping method in Checkout. 'It's a delicately balanced novel, spare but not taciturn, emotional but not overwrought, and finally hopeful but not unnaturally cheerful.'-Margaret Quamme, The Columbus Dispatch This haunting first novel is the story of unspeakable horror and extraordinary beauty.”-Patty Dann, author of The Goldfish Went on Vacation Rachel Stolzman writes from the heart and speaks to the heart. “Rendered in spare and original prose, The Sign for Drowning is a piercing and poignant tale of loss and love. “Against the themes of loss and mourning in this radiant novel are balanced those of nurturing and hope.”-Roy Hoffman, author of Chicken Dreaming Corn and Almost Family Rachel Stolzman's story about a woman’s attempts to find order in the broken world she inhabits deftly captures grief and the struggle to live within its lifelong specter.”-Bret Lott, author of Jewel and A Song I Knew by Heart “Reminiscent of Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time and Frederick Reichen’s The Odd Sea, this is a moving and important novel. Rachel Stolzman reminds us what kind of stories matter, and move us, the most.”-Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and The Whole World Over “At a time when cool, ironic fiction is too much the rage, here is a novel written straight from the heart, a tender yet fearless portrait of a loving family crippled by grief. Stolzman brings this lyrical sensibility to an elegiac tale of a family’s heart-stopping tragedy and hard-won redemption, in which a tarnished silence can once again be made to shine through the resonate power of love.”- Foreword Magazine

“By offering her heroine’s hesitant optimism through such disarmingly honest confessions, Stolzman exhibits an authentic emotional and narrative integrity, an impressive feat for a debut novelist.

The Sign for Drowning by Rachel Stolzman