![]() A year later, Mattie's husband, Carl, returns from the Army Traumatized by her hospital work, she seeks refuge with her sister in a farmhouse on a Wisconsin lake. When we meet her at the end of World War I, Amanda is a once-capable Milwaukee nurse. ![]() In spite of Amanda's jealous guarding of the facts, the truth eventually emerges, revealing a story of deepįamily rivalries and of the consequences of such determined deception. Who was 3 when her mother died, remembers drowning too, but her Aunt Amanda insists she must be dreaming. Ruth.'' Amanda Starkey claims she ''lost'' her beloved and envied sister, Mattie, but after the drowning there's a human bite mark on Amanda's hand. Ne sister drowns in a frozen lake and the other won't tell how it happened: such is the premise of Christina Schwarz's first novel, ''Drowning A first novel tells a strange story of a sister who drowns mysteriously in a frozen lake. ![]()
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