The Young Drown presents all those elements of the prose of Caitlin R. Kiernan that his readers expect: a style of wonderful luminosity, an atmosphere of languid melancholy, and an inexplicable mixture of painful beauty and gripping terror. It is a ghost story, but also a book about the writing of ghost stories. It is a story about falling in love, falling out of love, and the question of whether madness is a gift or a curse. It is one of those few novels that one would wish would never end. S. T. Joshi India Morgan Phelps -Imp for friends- is schizophrenic. She can no longer trust her own mind, because she is convinced that her memories have somehow betrayed her, forcing her to question her own identity. Facing his own perceptions, Imp must discover the truth about his encounter with an evil mermaid, or a helpless wolf who appeared to him as a young savage, or none of these things, b...read more
