The Deepest Lake, Andromeda RomanoLax
The Deepest Lake, Andromeda RomanoLax
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The Deepest Lake

Author: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrator: Susan Bennett, Rebecca Quinn Robertson

Unabridged: 11 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/07/2024


Synopsis

Rose, the mother of twentysomething aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter’s death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central America’s deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusion—and find closure.

When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughter’s literary hero, the famous writing teacher Eva Marshall, a charismatic woman known for her candid—and controversial—memoirs. As Rose uncovers details about the days leading up to Jules’s disappearance, she begins to suspect that this glamorous retreat package is hiding ugly truths. Is Lake Atitlán a place where traumatized women come to heal or a place where deeper injury is inflicted?

The Deepest Lake is both a sharp look at the sometimes toxic, exclusionary world of high-class writing workshops and an achingly poignant view of a mother’s grief.

“Welcome to the memoir workshop from hell. I relished this insider’s look … The Deepest Lake is a gripping yet thoughtful novel about overcoming trauma, meeting our inheritance, and what happens when we seize the power to rewrite our own stories.”—Alison B. Hart, author of The Work Wife

About Andromeda Romano-Lax

Andromeda Romano-Lax is the author of The Spanish Bow, a New York Times Editors' Choice that has been translated into eleven languages; The Detour; Behave; and Plum Rains, which won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; as well as numerous works of nonfiction. She is a cofounder of 49 Writers, a statewide literary organization in Alaska, and lives on a small island in British Columbia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kirsten on March 12, 2024

If you love over-the-top plots as I do, you will really enjoy The Deepest Lake. Mostly what I am looking for when I read a book, is drama that has me holding my breath with suspense, and keeps me reading late into the night with riveted attention to find out what happens next. Any minute that I had......more

Goodreads review by Christina on April 06, 2024

Right from the start, this book sucked me in and held me captivated. I couldn’t put it down. Jules, a young, carefree, world traveler is excited to work for her beloved author, Eva Marshall, at a memoir workshop in Guatemala. This is her dream job! Her parents, however, want her to finish college, s......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on March 13, 2024

I received an audiobook of this one on Netgalley in exchange for reading and reviewing it. I liked the narration of the book and I thought both of the perspectives telling the story were brought to life well. The story is also told in two timelines which is always nice. Rose is a mother whose daught......more

Goodreads review by AndiReads on February 11, 2024

I have visited Lago Atilán myself multiple times and had to pick this book up! There is something incredibly magical about the deepest lake in Guatemala, in all of Latin America. Surrounded by volcanoes, it is truly a vision. This book is also magical and kept me guessing and fully engaged until the......more

Goodreads review by Megan on February 15, 2024

I may have been the wrong audience for this one. I was expecting a psychological thriller or suspense, but this felt more like a slow paced drama. A mom goes to a writing retreat in Guatemala to retrace her daughter’s last known whereabouts. While that sounds mysterious, it’s more like a mom goes to......more