The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

*2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist *Longlisted for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize  *Longlisted for the 2019 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award *Shortlisted for the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Fiction *A Best Book of 2018  —Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed News, Entropy, LitReactor, LitHub *35 Over 35 Award 2018 *One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall  —Vulture, Harper's BAZAAR, BuzzFeed News, P