Also during this visit, Amanda infected her parents with flu germs picked up at the hospital where she worked, ultimately killing them. He and Amanda had begun an affair in secret when Amanda was visiting her parents several years ago. Clement is wealthy and owns a large house near Mathilda’s farm. It is revealed that before Mathilda’s death, Amanda was involved with Clement Owen, a married man in the community.
Soon after, Amanda has another mental health episode, for which she is hospitalized. Gradually, Ruth begins to warm up to Carl, which annoys Amanda who is used to having Ruth all to herself. Amanda tells him that Mathilda was trying to ice skate the night she drowned, but Carl knows that she is hiding something. She agrees to stay at the farm to help Carl raise his daughter.Ĭarl is suspicious of the circumstances around Mathilda’s death. Amanda is pleased by Carl’s misfortune since she never liked her sister’s husband. He now walks with a cane and has a very difficult time parenting Ruth. Amanda used to be a competent and well-respected nurse at a veteran’s hospital, but a nervous condition and persistent illness forced her to leave her job. Amanda has cared for Ruth ever since the drowning since Ruth’s father is in France recovering from war wounds. Ruth’s mother, Mathilda, died as a result of the same incident.
Three-year-old Ruth is a self-possessed young girl who has very clear memories of the night she drowned in the frozen lake near her family’s farm and was subsequently revived by her aunt Amanda. Told using a non-linear structure, the narrative withholds key information about its central mystery until the final chapters. Published in 2000, it became an Oprah’s Book Club selection in September of that year. It also has elements of a mystery novel and a psychological thriller. Drowning Ruth is a historical novel by Christina Schwarz.
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