The First Time She Drowned

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"Lyrical, emotional...resonant." Entertainment Weekly
"One of the most lyrical novels I ve ever read. Haunting and exquisite." Nicola Yoon, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofEverything, Everything Cassie O'Malley has spent the past two and a half years in a mental institution--dumped there by her mother, against her will. Now, at 18, Cassie emancipates herself, determined to start over and reclaim her life. But when the unhealthy mother-daughter relationship that defined Cassie's childhood and adolescence threatens to pull her under once again, Cassie must decide: whose version of history is the truth, and whose life must she save?
"Beautiful and passionate . . . Kletter is] a writer of great distinction and infinite promise." Pat Conroy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad"