They Drown Our Daughters
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
If you can hear the call of the water,
It’s already far too late.
After a bitter separation, Meredith Strand returns to the crumbling seaside cliffs of Cape Disappointment with her daughter in tow. They say the town is haunted, but to Meredith it seems more plagued by regret than any malevolent force. However, the waves crash louder than she remembers and the stories her mother once whispered are harder to ignore. Something is watching.
As her mother suffers from the early stages of Alzheimer’s and her daughter begins to change, Meredith is drawn into a haunting legacy that spans generations of women. If she isn’t careful, all three women, bound by blood and heartbreak, will be lost one by one to the ocean’s mournful call.
They Drown Our Daughters is a modern gothic horror novel that blends chilling coastal folklore with the emotional depths of queer identity, motherhood, and inherited trauma. With haunting atmosphere and lyrical precision, Katrina Monroe delivers a story that grips both heart and spine.
Praise for They Drown Our Daughters:
"They Drown Our Daughters is haunting, powerful, and unforgettable.” ― Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author of Gallows Hill
"A slow burn ghostly story that’s perfect for those who love a haunted seaside and mothers fighting for their daughters. It’s romantic, heartbreaking, scary, and beautifully written." ― Horrorbound
“They Drown Our Daughters is the best kind of story― one that will both break your heart and scare the hell out of you." ― Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Children on the Hill
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Monroe's brooding modern gothic debut delivers a generation-spanning account of one family grappling with the inescapable specter of grief. When Meredith separates from her wife to return to Cape Disappointment, a former mermaid-centric tourist trap, she and her seven-year-old daughter, Alice, are welcomed back into her childhood home by her mother, Judith. But with three generations of Strands gathered back together in a seaside town whose water holds centuries-old secrets—teased out in flashbacks to 1881—Meredith must uncover the truth about the real curse of Cape Disappointment, or lose everything to the grasping waves. Monroe does an excellent job interweaving time periods and character arcs to create a rich, complex picture of intergenerational trauma, and Meredith's relationships with her mother and daughter make the present feel vital. Clunky exposition occasionally hampers the story's ability to integrate so many moving parts into a cohesive narrative, but the atmosphere remains as chilly and gripping as an ocean wind as the story drives toward its haunting conclusion. Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia should check this out.
