“Unlocking the Secrets Beneath: Dive into the Haunting Depths of Stephanie Clare Smith’s ‘Everywhere the Undrowned'”
“I sat in my mediator chair surprised no one else could hear my fourteen-year-old defender rise up from the ashes, again and again, chanting—She loves me, you know. She loves me.”
Later still, when in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina her hometown is in ruins, Smith brings her mother to live with her in Raleigh. When her mother is diagnosed with a form of vascular dementia, Smith takes on the role of caregiver in the way that, paradoxically, sometimes manifests in those who have lacked that nurturing. Perhaps her training as a social worker impacts her ability to face the challenge of providing a stable home for the mother who was unable to do the same for her. But more compelling is Smith’s identity as an empath, clear from her writing well before she pens the word.
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