In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake AtitlÃĄn, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughterâs mysterious death.
Rose, the mother of twentysomething aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughterâs death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen?
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When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central Americaâs deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusionâand find closure. When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughterâs literary hero, the famous writing teacher Eva Marshall, a charismatic woman known for her candidâand controversialâmemoirs. As Rose uncovers details about the days leading up to Julesâs disappearance, she begins to suspect that this glamorous retreat package is hiding ugly truths. Is Lake AtitlÃĄn a place where traumatized women come to heal or a place where deeper injury is inflicted?
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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 motherâs grief.
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