{"product_id":"under-lake-by-erin-l-mccoy-hardback","title":"UNDER LAKE BY ERIN L. MCCOY","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwelve years ago, Otta escaped her small town, determined to become a marine biologist. Now she’s returned, carrying the guilt of a friend’s disappearance during a deep-sea dive and unsure she’ll ever be able to dive again. Then a stranger, May, appears at her door, insisting that her daughter who ran away is under the nearby lake—alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt turns out the small-town legend is true: Three decades ago, the entire valley was flooded to build a dam, but the people who lived there refused to leave. These “refugees of a world obsessed with change” now inhabit an underwater realm. To find the missing girl, Otta and May come face-to-face with communities that have lived in isolation for decades, breeding extremes of delusion and nostalgia. As they push their bodies to the mortal limit, the women must confront the fear, control, and suspicion born of the misguided quest to construct a purer world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHypnotic and arresting, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnderlake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings a poet’s attention to language, evoking the ethereal work of Marilynne Robinson, Lauren Groff, and Emily St. John Mandel and the imaginative brio of Margaret Atwood. In taking her place as a major new voice in American fiction, McCoy shrewdly explores the American obsession with land, inheritance, and race, asking what we cling to when the world changes—and who gets erased in the name of preserving it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable in Hardback.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Games and Stuff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445893140726,"sku":"9780385552073","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3303\/7465\/files\/71SgiA7Kk5L._SL1500.jpg?v=1776288444","url":"https:\/\/www.gamesandstuffonline.com\/products\/under-lake-by-erin-l-mccoy-hardback","provider":"Games and Stuff","version":"1.0","type":"link"}