Drowning Ruth
Christina Schwarz's novel circles the mysterious drowning of a young woman on a Wisconsin farm and the secrets her sister keeps.
Christina Schwarz’s debut is set on a Wisconsin farm just after World War I. When Mathilda drowns beneath the ice of the family’s lake, her troubled sister Amanda takes charge of Mathilda’s small daughter, Ruth, and of a secret about that night. Moving between past and present and among several narrators, the novel slowly uncovers what really happened, in a tense story of jealousy and buried guilt.
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Oprah Winfrey
Somebody just gave me this book. And I--I went home on a Friday night and stayed up until like one in the morning and then finished it Saturday afternoon. So it's one of those kind of reads. Once you get in it, you can't put it down.
Book Club · September 2000
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