02354cam a2200349 i 4500 1212224381 TxAuBib 20240405120000.0 231020t20242023||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023048586 9798885797832 (OCoLC)1405845460 TxAuBib rda Basham, Brendan Shay, author. Swim home to the vanished / Brendan Shay Basham. Large print edition. [Farmington Hills] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. ©2023. 355 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier When the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief of its own. The same day that Damien arrives, a young woman from the community's most powerful family is being laid to rest. A stranger in town, Damien is the object of gossip and suspicion, ignored by all except the dead girl's mother, Ana Maria, who offers Damien a room and a job. Grateful for her kindness, Damien soon begins to fall under Ana Maria's charismatic spell. But how long can he resist the rumors swirling through town suggesting she might have had something to do with her daughter's death? Or deny his strange kinship with one of Ana Maria's surviving daughters, Marta, who knows too well the grief that follows the loss of a sibling--and who is driven by a fierce need for revenge? Swiftly, Damien finds himself caught in a power struggle between the brujas, a whirlwind battle that threatens to sweep the whole village out to sea. --Book jacket. 20240405. Grief Fiction. Death Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Navajo Indians Fiction. Witches Fiction. Magical realism (Literature.) TXKPL