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The Undercurrent

A Novel

Sarah Sawyer

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English
Zibby Books
01 February 2025
'A mystery of remarkable scope, bristling with intelligence, beauty, and humanity. It is, quite simply: stunning.'

Gillian Flynn, author ofGone Girl

'A stunning, achingly beautiful and gripping mystery. Full of page-turning suspense, intrigue, and secrets...

I loved it.'

Chris Whitaker, author ofAll the Colors of the Dark

An overwhelmed new mother becomes obsessed with the unsolved disappearance of a young girl from her small Texas hometown

and unearths her own family's dark secret.

It's 2011 and Deecie Jeffries's missing person's case in Austin, Texas, is still cold. New mom Bee, struggling with postpartum depression, is living in Portland, Maine, having left Austinand those memoriesfar behind. Until Leo, her childhood crush and her estranged twin Gus's best friend, suddenly resurfaces, drawing Bee back into their shared past.

Bee's predictable life is upended, pushing her to return to her childhood home and piece together a neighborhood's shattered history. Bee becomes consumed with a need to uncover the truth about Deecie's disappearance and what happened to the families who lived across the field from one another

Gus, Leo, and their mothers: Mary, a homemaker, whose only escape is the local community theater, and Diana, a serious academic dedicated to her studies.

Told in multiple perspectives with two different timelines,The Undercurrentis a gripping portrait of motherhood, obsession, broken family bonds, and buried secrets.
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Imprint:   Zibby Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   International
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 139mm, 
ISBN:   9798989532568
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Sarah Sawyer is an English teacher who lives and works at a boarding school in Western Massachusetts where she finds endless humor and inspiration in her colleagues and students. She is a graduate of Amherst College and the Bread Loaf School of English. The Undercurrent is her first novel.

Reviews for The Undercurrent: A Novel

"""A stunning, achingly beautiful and gripping mystery. Full of page-turning suspense, intrigue, and secrets, The Undercurrent is also a heartfelt story of family, childhood, and the nature of obsession. I loved it.” —Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark “Brilliant…I read The Undercurrent like I was under a spell, accompanied only by my own goosebumps. It’s a book about being a mother—in all the dull, punishing, and stunning ways—but then there’s also a...chilling mystery at its core. Pure glinty, flinty, propulsive perfection."" —Catherine Newman, author of We All Want Impossible Things “With The Undercurrent, Sarah Sawyer puts a spell on her reader. The story is immersive and taut, with an increasing sense of unease that kept me turning the pages. I wanted to know what happened next because of the mystery at the center of the book but also because I came to care deeply for these characters—a testament to Sawyer’s lyrical and tender depiction of them. I read the last chapters with my heart in my throat. Readers of Tana French will love this literary page turner.” —Kate Hope Day, author of In the Quick ""Sarah Sawyer takes us on a gorgeous, twisting voyage through a shadowed landscape of memory and mystery. The Undercurrent truly carried me away. This is a shimmering debut."" —Debra Jo Immergut, author of You Again"


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