The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson

Lauren Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether shes helping her mother keep family skeletons in the closet or sewing her acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister, Thalia, is her opposite, an impoverished actress who prides herself on exposing the lurid truths lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurels life seems neatly on track-- a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, a lovely suburban home-- everything she holds dear is threatened the night she is visited by the ghost of her 13-year-old neighbor Molly. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly, floating lifelessly in the Hawthornes backyard pool. Mollys death is an unseemly mystery that no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Laurel enlists Thalias help, even though she knows it comes with a high price tag. Together, they set out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about their familys haunted past, the true state of Laurels marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.

Author: Joshilyn Jackson

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 336

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Publication Date: 2009-05-26