Sweet Water

"Sweet Water" by Christina Baker Kline. A mysterious bequest, a mother's terrible death, and a daughter's search for the truth about the past yield taut suspense in this powerful first novel. Cassie Simon, a young sculptor living in New York, is frustrated with her work, her love life, and the city. When Amory Clyde, her grandfather, dies and leaves her his house in Sweetwater, Tennessee, she takes it as a sign and decides to move to the little town where her mother was born - and where she died tragically when Cassie was three. So begins a spiritual and emotional quest of rare power, as Cassie attempts to unravel the Clyde family myths about the accident that shattered their lives. Why did her mother let Amory drive her into town that night when she knew he was drunk? Why does her grandmother seem so withdrawn and nervous when Cassie begins to settle into the house? Is it just a coincidence that Bryce Davies, her grandmother's best friend, drowned only a few weeks before Cassie's mother died? And why did Amory, with whom Cassie has had no contact at all for twenty-five years, leave her the house in the first place? At once a southern literary saga and a psychological thriller, Sweet Water, told in the alternating voices of Cassie and her grandmother, is a riveting debut from a novelist of uncommon talent. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.