"Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath."
Says Hawkins in an interview with Goodreads: "There are many different narrative threads to 'Into the Water'; they didn't all occur to me at once. What I started with was the idea of writing about a familial relationship—I chose sisters—that has been deeply and irrevocably affected by something that happened to them when they were young. I wanted to examine the way we remember our childhoods, the stories we tell about ourselves and our families, and to find out what happens when those stories might not be true."
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