Schwarz's haunting debut novel, a US bestseller, is set in North America in the early 1900s.
Schwarz uses flashbacks togradually tease out the story of Amanda, Mathilda and Ruth, two adolescent sisters and a three-year-old child and how Mathilda died one icy night at Lake Nagawaukee.
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