Forme de l'eau

by Anne Spollen

La mère de Magda avait toujours dit que le monde était rempli de secrets étranges et merveilleux qu’elles seules pouvaient voir. Mais à présent qu’elle n’était plus là, le monde de Magda se retrouvait baigné d’angoisse et de solitude, voire de folie. ''La forme de l’eau'' dresse un tableau sinistrement lyrique et surprenant du quotidien et de l’irréel, dans lequel Magda commence à démêler les secrets de sa famille et à rechercher une place stable dans le monde. Broché - 13 x 20 - 368 pages

368 pages, Paperback

Published January 14, 2010

About the author

I was born in Staten Island, New York and grew up by the Atlantic Ocean. In the first grade, I turned over a book and saw that a human had created it. I asked my teacher how people got to write books. She said, "They read all the time." I took this very, very seriously.

I went away to New Paltz College and after graduating, I got a teaching job there and stayed. Teaching adverbial clauses and meeting with state auditors to discuss literacy scores was soul crushing so when my first son was born, I stayed home and returned to writing poetry while he napped. I eventually wrote faster (he napped less and soon had a new brother) and began writing short stories. Even better, editors began buying them. Eventually, my first novel, The Shape of Water, was published.

Right after that, I moved from New Paltz, back to a town near the Atlantic Ocean, but south of Staten Island. In February, 2010, my second novel, "Light Beneath Ferns," will be released. They are both young adult.

I finished a third that is still in the nether world, and I am working on a fourth. In the meantime, I teach English and Spanish part time and stalk my two teenage boys while raising their younger sister.