Dark and Shallow Lies

Dark and Shallow Lies

YA chiller
"People down here call us the Summer Children. We started our
lives as a complete set.
Ten. The most perfect number. The number of divine harmony.
The number at the heart of the universe. Ten commandments. Ten
plagues of Egypt."
In Ginny Myers Sain's Dark and Shallow Lies the rich and
haunting setting is as much a character as the humans (and jumbo
alligator) who inhabit it. La Cachette is located in the spooky,
superstitious bayou country of Louisiana. It's claim to fame is
billing itself the world's psychic capital. Most of its inhabitants
possess some form of supernatural ability.
One summer ten babies were born to eight families in La
Cachette. Sadly not all of them lived to see seventeen. Twins Ember
and Orli were drowned when they were only four. And Elora has gone
missing. Although posters pleading for any information are still
hanging, various psychic sources are in seeming agreement that she
won't be won't be showing up alive.
Grey, Sain's narrator, still holds out hope. She'd moved away
with her father after her mother's suicide. Now, on her annual summer
stay with her grandmother, she's determined to learn what happened to
her best friend. She's having a series of terrifying visions that may
be clues to Elora's fate.
She's also trying to figure why the previous summer Elora had
tried so hard to break off the friendship. Could it be more than a
simple case of growing apart? Could it be that La Cachette's fiercely
guarded secrets are so deadly she'll only be safe elsewhere?
Head on to that eerie small town and find out for yourself. If
you dare.
Dark and Shallow Lies is Sain's very promising debut novel. Her
bio says, "Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested
in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote
settings."
I can't wait to see where she takes us next.
On a purrrsonal note, it's been a good week mostly focussed on school
and work. I got 100% on my second paper and can hardly wait to submit
my third which I really enjoyed writing. In fact I was so inspired by
my topic I'm also writing a future Bangor Daily News opinion piece on
it. Work is going super. I had fun astounding my supervisor. I
noticed two garbage cans that were full and in danger of overflowing.
I wrestled the bags out, tied them off, and relined the cans. The
look on his face was priceless. I guess he hadn't realized someone so
small could wrangle something so big and heavy. I am some lucky
working at Wells where I have yet to encounter a boring shift. I also
scored a cat shirt and a unicorn shirt on a Goodwill run and stopped
at downtown Orono where I got books (library) and tomatoes and flowers
(community garden). (Jules)
No wonder she smells so fascinating when she comes home from work.
(Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to Sain with best wishes for a prolific
career.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway


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