The Drowning Girl

Summary

India Morgan Phelps, who calls herself Imp, is a schizophrenic woman writing a memoir about her encounter with a mysterious figure who may be a ghost, a mermaid, a wolf, or a delusion. As she circles back over the same uncertain events, the narrative deliberately contradicts itself, refusing to confirm what was real. Kiernan crafts an unreliable, hypnotic ghost story that interrogates mental illness, art, and the impossibility of trusting one's own account of haunting.