{"product_id":"the-deeper-the-water-the-uglier-the-fish-paperback","title":"The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatya Apekina\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, puddle of urine on the floor, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother's dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father, Dennis, a former civil rights activist and literary figure on the other side of success. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe girls, grieving and homesick, are at first wary of their father's affection, but soon Mae and Edie's close relationship begins to fall apart--Edie remains fiercely loyal to Marianne, convinced that Dennis is responsible for her mother's downfall, while Mae, suffocated by her striking resemblances to her mother, feels pulled toward their father. The girls move in increasingly opposing and destructive directions as they struggle to cope with outsized pain, and as the history of Dennis and Marianne's romantic past clicks into focus, the family fractures further. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving through a selection of first-person accounts and written with a sinister sense of humor, \u003ci\u003eThe Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully captures the quiet torment of two sisters craving the attention of a parent they can't, and shouldn't, have to themselves. In this captivating debut, Katya Apekina disquietingly crooks the lines between fact and fantasy, between escape and freedom, and between love and obsession.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatya Apekina\u003c\/b\u003e has had stories published in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSanta Monica Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWest Branch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePANK\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere, and has appeared on the Notable List of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. She translated poetry and prose for \u003ci\u003eNight Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky\u003c\/i\u003e (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008), which was short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award. She co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film \u003ci\u003eNew Orleans, Mon Amour\u003c\/i\u003e, which premiered at SXSW in 2008. Born in Moscow, she currently lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 353\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44412953919590,"sku":"9781937512750","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/VAny-A6qQp9781937512750.webp?v=1769943087","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-deeper-the-water-the-uglier-the-fish-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}