The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish Mathieu a sensitive and intelligent boy

a sensitive and intelligent boy growing up in late 19th-century Ireland

parakeets and sparrows

and the scheming of a disgruntled local magistrate threaten to shatter Flory's dreams and put him on a path to tragedy

all as if rehearsing for a grand finale: a job working on Lascaux IV

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish Mathieu a sensitive and intelligent boyIts 16 year old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, barely alive. Upstairs, 14 year old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mothers dark moods. After Marianne is unwillingly admitted to a mental hospital, Edie and Mae are forced to move from their childhood home in Louisiana to New York to live with their estranged father, Dennis, a former