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Title:The Drowning Girl
Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 332 pages
Published:March 6th 2012 by Roc
Categories:Horror. Fantasy. Fiction. LGBT. Paranormal. Urban Fantasy. Health. Mental Health
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India Morgan Phelps--Imp to her friends--is schizophrenic. She can no longer trust her own mind, because she is convinced that her memories have somehow betrayed her, forcing her to question her very identity.

Struggling with her perception of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about an encounter with a vicious siren, or a helpless wolf that came to her as a feral girl, or neither of these things but something far, far stranger...

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Original Title: The Drowning Girl
ISBN: 0451464168 (ISBN13: 9780451464163)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Providence, Rhode Island(United States)
Literary Awards: Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2012), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2013), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2013), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2013) Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2012), James Tiptree Jr. Award (2012)


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I'm still struggling with a review of this book. Imp is a fabulous, fascinating narrator. She explains in the opening chapter that she has schizophrenia. This makes the entire story suspect. What is truth? What is fact? Is it possible for something to be true without being factual? Two of Imp's own short stories become chapters of the book, but they are part of her own processing of reality. Her ghost story is peppered with references to paintings and painters and writers who may or may not

This one is dark and haunting, half a tribute to falling into art so deeply that it makes love to you and murders you, and half a deep treatise on madness and skirting the far edges of normality, all while feeling very much in one's own skin.Most of the fun is simply trying to figure out whether it's a ghost story, a Ghost Story, or the ghost of a story, disjointed and cast adrift in time and faulty memory.It's quite the interesting maze. Parts of the later novel is dreamlike and calls on us to

We weave necessary fictions, and sometimes they save us. Our minds, our bodies. - ImpYou know now that youll never be sure what happened? - Dr. Ogilvy Wow. So there are unreliable narrators and then there are schizophrenics. Had I never read PKD I would have been unprepared.There are chapters where it is a Tai Chi flow of pure crazy; tangent overlapping tangent. I had never really understood the phrase Keep it together. Kiernan cleverly draws you into the characters predicament by overlapping

What if you were insane, but actually haunted by a real ghost? I'm not sure why nobody has ever really tried this before (Yellow Wallpaper doesn't count because it always calls the narrator's perceptions and mental stability into question).Drenched in philosophy, history, psychology, science, and autobiography Kiernan uses her encyclopedic knowledge to weave a tale so dense it is sometimes difficulty to see where she is going but fascinating nevertheless. Imp seems to be the ultimate unreliable

5 StarsCaitlin Kiernan is simply one of the best, the most original, and gifted writers in fiction today. She writes deep and dark horror stories and challenges you the reader as well as her many amazing protagonists to join her on a trip down the rabbit hole. Can you tell she is a real favorite of mine? I have read most of Kiernans work and have been taken in by her works, ever since I read The Red Tree, my first endeavor into the mysterious mind of Caitlin Kiernan.In this book, The Drowning

If you pick this up thinking its a charming fantasy or even a gothic horror novel you may be disappointed. Like Kiernans The Red Tree (which I loved), it has eerie leanings but at its core its more an intimate and unflinching look at a persons struggle with insanity. It revisits several of the same themes but it takes them further and, as much as I tried and wanted to love this one just as much, in the end it just didnt work for me.Told in first person, India (Imp) is the unreliable narrator.

http://bibliosanctum.blogspot.com/201...This novel was our book club's choice for July, the theme of which was "Nominees for the 2012 Nebula Awards". Though this book hadn't been on my to-read list, nor had I a clue what it was going to be about, I'd looked forward to checking it out.The Drowning Girl, described as dark fantasy and horror mixed with strong elements of magical realism, stars protagonist India Morgan Phelps, or Imp to those around her. Imp also has schizophrenia. As such, much of

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