Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending prestigious Glenlake Academy. Then, a submerged car is dredged from the bottom of a swimming hole near the campus. So are the remains of a former writer-in-residence who vanished twenty years ago-during Ian and Andi's senior year.
When Cassidy's journalism class begins investigating the death, Ian and Andi's high school secrets rise to the surface. Each has a troubled link to the man whose arrival and sudden disappearance once set the school on edge. And each had a reason to want him gone. As Cassidy unwittingly edges closer to the truth, unspoken words, locked away for decades, will force Ian and Andi to question what they really know-about themselves, about the past, and about a marriage built on a murderous lie.
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[No one can keep a secret these days, thinks the boy as he leads them all down to the lake, its flat surface the colour of nickel in the cloudy Illinois evening]***
(Lake Union Publishing, 1 October 2019, 379 pages, ebook, #popsugarreadingchallenge 2020, a book with a three word title, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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The premise of the book intrigued me and I liked the cover so I really wanted to read this book. I enjoyed it. I'm a fan of non-linear narratives, books that shift about in time and books that use more than one narrator. Drowning with others uses all three devices. The book moves back and forth in time from the present when a body of a poet is found in a car submerged in a lake near an affluent town where he taught at the high school for one semester and the past showing his time as the school and his influence over the students. There is a lot of misdirection in the book and it's never clear what's going on. Did Dallas kill himself? Did someone murder him and if so why? Why did it take 20 years to find his car and body? I found this gripping and intense at times.
