The First Time She Drowned Author:Kerry Kletter "Lyrical, emotional...resonant." ?Entertainment Weekly — "One of the most lyrical novels I?ve ever read. Haunting and exquisite." ?Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, 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,... more » 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« less