They Drown Our Daughters

By Katrina Monroe

Book Overview

"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

If you can hear the call of the water,

It's already far too late.

They say Cape Disappointment is haunted. That's why tourists used to flock there in droves. They'd visit the rocky shoreline under the old lighthouse's watchful eye and fish shells from the water as they pretended to spot dark shapes in the surf. Now the tourists are long gone, and when Meredith Strand and her young daughter return to Meredith's childhood home after an acrimonious split from her wife, the Cape seems more haunted by regret than any malevolent force.

But her mother, suffering from early stages of Alzheimer's, is convinced the ghost stories are real. Not only is there something in the water, but it's watching them. Waiting for them. Reaching out to Meredith's daughter the way it has to every woman in their line for generations--and if Meredith isn't careful, all three women, bound by blood and heartbreak, will be lost one by one to the ocean's mournful call.

Part queer modern gothic, part ghost story, They Drown Our Daughters explores the depths of motherhood, identity, and the lengths a woman will go to hold on to both.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1728248205
• ISBN13: 9781728248202
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A DNF for me.

“To many hens in the hen house” is one way that I would describe this book. This was a “Did Not Finish”  though this was even close to a “Skip ahead”. I was excited this book started out pretty good, but then it began to drag and drag heavily. The characters in the book were very unlikeable as well. Meredith, Alice her daughter and her mother Judith were the modern day POVs. I do not mind the multiple POVs but it could have been in a little less with the person jumping from teen, adult, and vice versa. Meredith is very unlikeable and pushing her fears onto her daughter. Alice doesn’t really have a POV since she is young, and Judith is losing her marbles due to Alzheimer’s but is one of the more likeable characters. I will try and finish it, but as of right now its on my “try again later” shelf.