Rebecca Winterich-Knox’s debut novel, Bodies of Water, is a gothic domestic drama about grief, betrayal, and the secrets that surface when two families reunite at an ancestral seaside estate. Set over one week on the Massachusetts coast, the novel follows seven characters reckoning with loss, shifting relationships, and the histories that bind them together.
Winterich-Knox holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn. Bodies of Water will be released by Zando on June 15, 2027. It is available for preorder now.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Bodies of Water, designed by Ash Tsai. Below, Winterich-Knox discusses drawing inspiration from the New England coastline, creating a sense of suspense through landscape, and how two nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings were transformed into the novel’s stormy seaside cover.
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