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Miss Water
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2025
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the water, Rebecca is weightless. No bruises, no voices, no past she can't escape. The current carries what the world has tried to drown in her - memories, names, the girl she used to be. It is the only place she feels held, and the only place she can't be touched.
Told through fragments of Now, Adolescence, and Adulthood, Miss Water is a raw, unflinching portrait of a Black woman navigating the echoes of abuse, the ache of longing, and the search for a self that feels whole. In Rebecca's life, intimacy comes with shadows, beauty with scrutiny, and survival with a cost.
Lyrical and deeply human, this novel moves like dive into the water - fluid, shifting, pulling the reader under before letting them breathe again. Through its recurring water imagery, Miss Water asks: Can we ever be truly free of the tides that shaped us? And if we can't, is there a way to learn to float?
For readers of Toni Morrison, Brit Bennett, and Alice Walker - and anyone drawn to raw, lyrical storytelling that lingers long after the final page - Miss Water is both an intimate confession and a haunting literary journey.
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