She’ll win you over in the most old fashioned of ways: She simply tells a hell of a story.” -Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Finalist for The Great BelieversĪtlantic City, 1934. “Rachel Beanland is a writer of uncommon wit and wisdom, with a sharp and empathetic eye for character. “The perfect summer read” (USA TODAY) begins with a shocking tragedy that results in three generations of the Adler family grappling with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets across the course of one summer. Once there, Ethel learns that the water is rumored to grant wishes, never suspecting that the spring takes in equal measure to what it gives.Ī haunting, twisty, and compulsively readable thrill ride from the author who Chris Bohjalian has dubbed the “literary descendant of Shirley Jackson,” The Drowning Kind is a modern-day ghost story that illuminates how the past, though sometimes forgotten, is never really far behind us. In an effort to distract her, her husband whisks her away on a trip to Vermont, where a natural spring is showcased by the newest and most modern hotel in the Northeast. In 1929, thirty-seven-year-old newlywed Ethel Monroe hopes desperately for a baby. And as she dives deeper into the research herself, she discovers that the land holds a far darker past than she could have ever imagined. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister’s things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history of their family and the property.
But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother’s estate. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it’s just another one of her sister’s episodes. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invited and The Winter People comes a chilling new novel about a woman who returns to the old family home after her sister mysteriously drowns in its swimming pool…but she’s not the pool’s only victim.
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