“Unlocking the Secrets Beneath: Dive into the Haunting Depths of Stephanie Clare Smith’s ‘Everywhere the Undrowned'”
“She couldn’t see my name on the black soles, but it was there, touching the ground with her, wherever she was, around, somewhere.”
As someone also on my own at a young age, Smith’s words touched me in places I seldom go, remembering the danger and loneliness of that long-ago time. There were many of us, sometimes hiding in plain sight, shoplifting food items, knowing if we were caught there’d be no one to bail us out. Panhandling for change to avoid being apprehended.
The story of Smith’s alone summer and its ensuing trauma is told in small, introspective paragraphs into which she skillfully weaves threads of mathematics, science, etymology, and a lonely teenager’s worst fears.
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