The Girl in the Water

Winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction Winner of the 2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards for Outstanding Multicultural Fiction Winner of the 2023 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal for Best Regional Ebook (Fiction) Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 NYC Big Book Award for Literary Fiction Finalist in the 2023 Eyelands Book Awards Finalist in the 2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards for Literary Fiction Finalist in the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards for Multicultural Fiction Finalist in the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for New Fiction The Girl in the Water is the story of a multiethnic group of young friends, coming of age in Estonia and Ukraine in the last days of the Soviet Union. Their lives are shaped by an Afghan war, the Chernobyl disaster, and th.......