Water ghost, two sisters and the long work of grief

A drowned girl returns from the dead. The rain will not stop. And something hungry is stalking a quiet California town. In Yun Ji-hyun's young adult gothic novel "And the River Drags Her Down," a teenage girl, Soojin, breaks the oldest rule of her family's ancestral magic to bring back her older sister, Mirae, who w…

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