Deep Dark Waves

by Tricia Dower

From the acclaimed author of Stony River comes a fascinating story about a woman ensnared in the past like an insect in amber. Sona is an accomplished professional with a tangled, complicated history. She’s a wife without a husband and a mother without a child. But as she recounts her story of victimization to a group of sympathetic supporters, the gaps and inconsistencies suggest an even more disturbing reality. Deep Dark Waves is a bracingly honest account of marital discord, revenge and a woman’s sexual response to violence.

26 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 4, 2013

About the author

TRICIA DOWER was a business executive before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Her Shakespeare-inspired story collection, Silent Girl (Inanna 2008) was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Herizons magazine called it "ambitious and powerful." Her first novel, Stony River (Penguin Canada 2012 and Leapfrog Press 2016) was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. The Globe and Mail wrote, "...Dower is a masterful storyteller." At the publication of her second novel, Becoming Lin (Caitlin Press 2016), the Vancouver Sun wrote, "Some of the most powerful and eloquent Canadian novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries...including Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence and Ethel Wilson...open up what had been cloaked in silence, the oppression of women and their self-discoveries in resistance. We can now add to this important liberation canon the name of Tricia Dower." She won first prize for fiction in The Malahat Review’s 2010 Open Season Awards and first prize for creative nonfiction in subTerrain Magazine's 2015 literary awards. Her short fiction also has appeared in The New Quarterly, Room of One’s Own, Hemispheres, Cicada, NEO, Big Muddy, and Island Writer. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Dower lives and writes in Sidney, BC.

Reviews

[Tricia Dower · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a story that first appeared in my collection, Silent Girl. It has been expanded and edited in collaboration with Penguin. It was inspired originally by the plight of Hermione in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

[Jackie Saad · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is captivating from beginning to end. I would love to see it grown into a book.