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The Very Terrible Drowning of Bryan Price by Colleen Alles

$22.99

Full-length, paper

Novella

979-8-89990-402-8

2026

The Very Terrible Drowning of Bryan Price tells the story of Kate Barkway, a middle-aged wife and mother living in an idyllic West Michigan town. While her supervisor is on leave, Kate is in charge of the city’s annual triathlon, and everything is running smoothly… until a body is pulled from the waters of Reeds Lake. That body belongs to Bryan Price—Kate’s ex-husband. In the wake of the tragedy, questions arise about Kate’s role in Bryan’s drowning. No one has more questions than Madalynn—Bryan’s pregnant wife. Madalynn won’t rest until the truth about Kate Barkway comes out.

Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and award-winning writer living in Grand Rapids. The author of three novels and two poetry collections, she’s also a fiction editor with Barren Magazine. You can find her online at www.colleenalles.com.

PRAISE:

 

Alles’s novella is a lean, fast-paced tale of protestations of innocence, and the secrets those claims conceal. The protagonist Kate is a sympathetic narrator throughout, but who the reader can’t help but think is holding something back. Alles’s characters are convincingly, pulsingly, alive, as are the circumstances around the book’s central tragedy. One holds one’s breath on every page.

–Bob Johnson, author of The Continental Divide

 

Colleen Alles is the master of sowing doubt, of creating seemingly relatable characters and then tearing them apart on the page.

–Megan Turner, fiction writer

 

 

 

 

 

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