"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 the collapse and legacy of a suffocating society. "Howse evokes the literary styles of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky ... The author has composed a book like Tchaikovsky would a symphony; tight, disciplined, yet bubbling with unspoken passion and near-magical allegory." -IndieReader

Rights Contact

Allison Olson, DropCap Rights Agency <allison@dropcap.com>

Award(s)

Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 NYC Big Book Award for Literary Fiction, Finalist for the 2024 Montaigne Medal (Eric Hoffer Book Award), Finalist for the 2024 da Vinci Eye (Eric Hoffer Book Award), Finalist in the 17th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for New Fiction, Finalist in the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards for Multicultural Fiction, Finalist in the 2023 Eyelands Book Awards, Finalist in the 2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards for Literary Fiction, Honorable Mention in the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award for E-Book Fiction, Shortlistee for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize, Top 100 in the 8th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition, 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), and Winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction

Rights Sold (Countries)

French

Book Website

https://nummist.com/stories

Contributor(s)

Joseph Howse and Janet Howse (illustrator)

Publisher

Nummist Media

ISBN-13

978-0-9952878-5-3

Publication Date

Sep 17, 2022

Pages

316

Price

$16.99

Tags

#literary

Our Review (4 out of 5 stars)

Intentional and poetic, the historical novel "The Girl in the Water" follows a Soviet Union coming-of-age. Joseph Howse’s charming bildungsroman "The Girl in the Water" is set in Ukraine in the 1980s; in it, an observant girl becomes an adult. Nadia grows up during a tumultuous time in history... Read More