num_pages: 256
description: A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel.
language: English
title: The Weight of Water
titlecomplete: The Weight of Water
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Book Club, Adult, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 28322
places: Isles of Shoals, Maine
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award
publisher: Little, Brown and Company