{"product_id":"return-to-water-9788409826940","title":"Return to Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Mrs. Calloway spoke my name wrong at the funeral, the syllables falling from her lips like stones dropped in still water.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe studied the ocean from the safe side of glass. She never asked why.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarine biologist Linnea has spent six years cataloging deep-sea specimens - never touching salt water, never going near the tide. Her adoptive mother Margaret made sure of that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Margaret is dead. And in her coastal house, with its locked rooms and the smell of brine and rot, Linnea begins to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSomething is surfacing. Something that knows her real name.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret's secrets come apart in pieces - evidence of a woman who understood exactly what her daughter was, and spent thirty years making sure she never found out. The ocean is patient. It has been calling since birth. And the body Linnea was raised to ignore is answering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat it will cost her to listen is everything she was taught to be. What it will cost her to refuse may be worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dark fantasy novella about inheritance, transformation, and the lies mothers tell to keep us human.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Carmen Maria Machado, VanderMeer's \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Han Kang's \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e - if the sea had teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Luna Asli Kolcu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788409826940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Luna Asli Kolcu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774292652213,"sku":"9788409826940","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/return-to-water-9788409826940","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}