Title: Mothers Don’t Client: Open Letter Books Published date: July 12, 2022 Awards and recognition: list awards here URL: https://www.openletterbooks.org/products/mothers-dont A disturbing mystery novel in which a mother drowns her twin children in the bathtub, told through the obsessive investigation of another mother on maternity leave. The cover image is a photograph of a physical construction made using sheets of glass and several types of clear gels — not a Photoshop effect — that distorts the letterforms to create the illusion of underwater type. The watery letterforms carry layered meaning: the drowning murders, the bathtub setting, the murky search for truth, and the language of motherhood itself — water breaking, the womb, submersion.
