Instead she’s avoided him since the first day of freshman year. Colin is also the only person in Avery’s college life who challenged her to swim her own events, to be her own person-something she refused to do. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and Colin Shea, who happens to be her teammate. That all changes when Avery’s red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. Now a sophomore on her university’s nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good.
Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Have you read a great book recently? Don’t keep that juicy tidbit all to yourself.Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Blog your thoughts and feedback at and enter the keyword “bibliophiliac” in the search bar. Reading Girl Underwater hearkens memories of how difficult and wonderful it is to be 19 years old, even without experiencing such a tragedy during that time in life.įellow bibliophiles and book club members, please feel free to join in the dialogue. Readers will likely feel sympathetic toward Avery and root for her recovery. Girl Underwater is a quick, captivating read with believable and likable characters. The story’s tension builds as more of Avery’s memories of the event bubble to the surface. The current of the story pulls the reader between Avery’s past and present as she struggles with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Avery grapples with survivor’s guilt, and readers will wonder up to the end of the novel whether she will recover. However, surviving is not the same as living. She manages to survive, along with a fellow college teammate and three young children. This transitional process is halted when a horrific plane crash in the Rocky Mountains alters the course of her life.
She swims competitively for the college she attends and is trying to find her place there. Avery is the tender age of 19, on the cusp of adulthood. The story is told from the main character, Avery Delacorte’s point of view. “Girl Underwater” is Claire Kells’ debut novel, and it pulls you into its depths from the start. What if the thing you loved to do the most and what you built your identity around were suddenly to become something that triggered episodes of uncontrollable fear? That is what the unwilling protagonist of this month’s Bibliophiliac’s book selection, “Girl Underwater” struggles with. Every month she will share what she has been reading with the hope that others will share in her obsession. It has been this way nearly all her life. The Connection writer Amanda Merriman admits she is hopelessly addicted to books.
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