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    "description": "In this stunning and perceptive debut novel three women learn what it means to come home\u2014and to make peace with the family, love affairs, and memories they\u2019d once left behind.\n\nRiver Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can\u2019t imagine leaving, but three women couldn\u2019t wait to escape. When each must return\u2014Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend\u2019s only black daughters, now a mother of two who\u2019d planned to raise her own children anywhere else\u2014their paths collide under Beth\u2019s father\u2019s roof. As one town struggles to contain all of their love affairs and secrets, a local scandal forces Beth to confront her own devastating past.\n\nFilled with the voices of mothers and daughters, husbands, lovers, and fathers, The House of Deep Water explores motherhood, trauma, love, loss, and new beginnings found in a most unlikely place: home.",
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