The Seduction of Water

£12 · Offered by Goldsboro Books

On the heels of her mesmerizing bestseller, The Lake of Dead Languages , Carol Goodman has written a brooding, captivating novel that skillfully weaves fairy tale themes into a modern web of intrigue. It is a novel about the secrets mothers keep, and the daughters who must live in their shadows. Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation) has just turned forty, lives in Manhattan, and works three teaching jobs to support herself. Recently shes felt that the buts are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married (to Jack, her boyfriend of ten years). Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtimeand nestled inside is the sad story of her mothers death. . . More than fifty years ago, Iriss mother, Katherine Morrissey, arrived at the Catskills grand Hotel Equinox penniless, with almost no belongings. Kay was hired as a maid but refused to speak of her past or her family. One year later, she married Ben Greenfeder, the hotels manager. During the hotels off-season, Kay wrote the first two fantasy novels of a planned trilogy. There never was a third book. When Iris was nine, her mother left one day for a writers conferenceand never came back. Kay died that very night in a hotel fire on Coney Island, registered as another mans wife. Now Hedda Wolfe, Kays former literary agent, has a proposal: If Iris will return to the Hot

• Binding: Hardcover

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