"Talking Underwater unfolds with the slow, sinuous rhythms of summer. We taste salt on the skin, we smell the ozone of fast-moving storms. DeLorenzo is a master at tracing the currents that run beneath the closest relationships and how sudden riptides can swallow them whole. By turns tender and tragic, this is the most genuine and generous story of sisterly love I've read in ages."-Sheri Holman, author of Witches on the Road Tonight #fiction

The water began to boil. She steeped her tea, dunking her teabag in and out of the water. She tried to think of nothing, hoped the answer would come through the silence. She drank the tea and peered into the cup. She looked for the dark specks of tea leaves. She moved the cup into the light.
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She peered into the cup and looked for tea leaves, divining. She looked hard, her eyes ached. (...)
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