“Unlocking the Secrets Beneath: Dive into the Haunting Depths of Stephanie Clare Smith’s ‘Everywhere the Undrowned'”

"Unlocking the Secrets Beneath: Dive into the Haunting Depths of Stephanie Clare Smith's 'Everywhere the Undrowned'"

Smith writes of going to summer school that year, having failed algebra. She is fortunate to have a teacher who inspires her.  Her prose transports me to the year when, at fourteen, I’d failed eighth grade and summer school wasn’t an option. My sister, a gifted student three years older, and like me, a habitual truant, had failed 11th grade English and History. She paid me with her babysitting wages to assume her identity and take her place in the classroom. I loved those classes and should have charged more because I aced them.

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