Author Event! Sarah Sawyer's "The Undercurrent"

Join us on April 12th at 4pm as we host author Sarah Sawyer, who will be reading from and discussing her debut novel, The Undercurrents. Signed copies of the book will be available at the event for purchase.

About the book:

“A mystery of remarkable scope, bristling with intelligence, beauty, and humanity. It is, quite simply: stunning.” ―Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

“A stunning, achingly beautiful and gripping mystery. Full of page-turning suspense, intrigue, and secrets…I loved it.” ―Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark

An Apple Books Best Debut of 2024

An overwhelmed new mother becomes obsessed with the unsolved disappearance of a young girl from her small Texas hometown―and unearths her own family’s dark secret.

It’s 2011 and Deecie Jeffries’s missing person’s case in Austin, Texas, is still cold. New mom Bee, struggling with postpartum depression, is living in Portland, Maine, having left Austin–and those memories–far behind. Until Leo, her childhood crush and her estranged twin Gus’s best friend, suddenly resurfaces, drawing Bee back into their shared past.

Bee’s predictable life is upended, pushing her to return to her childhood home and piece together a neighborhood’s shattered history. Bee becomes consumed with a need to uncover the truth about Deecie’s disappearance and what happened to the families who lived across the field from one another―Gus, Leo, and their mothers: Mary, a homemaker, whose only escape is the local community theater, and Diana, a serious academic dedicated to her studies.

Told in multiple perspectives with two different timelines, The Undercurrent is a gripping portrait of motherhood, obsession, broken family bonds, and buried secrets.

About the author:

Sarah Sawyer is the author of The Undercurrent, coming on October 8th, 2024 from Zibby Books. A graduate of Amherst College and the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, she teaches English at a boarding school in Western Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Symposium Books, 240 Westminster Street, Providence, United States