A.R. Tapiero
Description
Grief drowns you, because love is the hand that holds you under.
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When Georgette Klein flees her abusive husband and arrives in an isolated seasi
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de town, she answers Dr. Agoston Haddor’s posting for a medical study. But his work is far from ordinary: he recruits women and performs controlled drownings, then resuscitates them to record their near-death experiences.
For Georgette, it’s a chance to see her infant son, Henry, again—even if only in the visions between breath and death.
For Dr. Haddor, it’s a chance to prove consciousness, or the soul, survives outside the body…and perhaps a way to outrun the curse that already claimed his family. But when whispers of witches turn the town against Georgette, and betrayal brings powerful eyes toward the doctor’s research, she must decide how far she’s willing to go for the man who does not imagine life with her, but life through her.
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The Mother Who Drowns is a literary Gothic novel.
Please be aware there is no HEA (happily-ever-after).
Things you can expect:
- witchcraft accusations
- secret society
- superstitious seaside town
- romantic tragedy
- gothic atmosphere
- lush prose
- dark and unflinching explorations of grief, motherhood, spirituality, consciousness, consent, the ethics of medicine, the afterlife, and institutional power.
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