![]() ![]() Mattie is soon found drowned and frozen in the lake surrounding her fairy-tale house she had shared with her devastated family. ![]() Amanda Starkey, a young nurse, found she was not emotionally invested enough to care for her patients properly and decided to come home to her sister, Mathilda Neumann and her 3 year old baby girl, Ruth because they had been left alone upon her husband, Carl's joining the military and going to war. The novel takes place in 1919 in a small town at Lake Nagawaukee in Wisconsin, which is coincidentally where Christina Schwarz grew up. Drowning Ruth is a novel written about the affects of keeping a deep, dark secret on the structure of a family and how this secret can cause lives to deteriorate and people to lose their minds. ![]()
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