It’s with that same purposefulness, more like fate, that as soon as Colin boards the airplane he changed his seat to sit beside Avery. That taunting, haunting lake and their exceptional swimming skills and endurance are there for a purpose. But it’s strewn with the wreckage of the plane, pieces of fuselage and contents that might help them survive. Later we learn 204 innocents perished, someplace in/by a Colorado Rocky mountain lake, “the kind of wilderness no one comes to visit, the kind of lake no one ever swims in.” Yet, there are a few survivors and two are elite swimmers.Ĭolin Shea and Avery Delacorte are swim teammates at a Northern California college, flying home on Thanksgiving break, which means the wilderness lake is frigid. I’m not giving anything away here since by page 8 the air tragedy has already been set in motion. The novel’s timing is eerily uncanny given the rash of horrific plane crashes of late. At under 300 pages, it’s stirring writing for any author, let alone one’s debut. Artfully, Claire Kells delivers a message about true courage and the raw instinct for survival that is as much about hope and trust as monumental catastrophe and despair. The way it unfolds, and the taut prose, are riveting. Girl Underwater makes you wish you had nothing else to do in your day but binge read. Heroism – Saving lives, then saving yourself (Colorado wilderness, Northern California college, Boston, Massachusetts neighborhoods present-day):
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