The Lifeguard

by Laura Kasischke

In the town of Mission Hills, Michigan, an elementary school child drowns in the Olympic-sized pool at a summer swim club. By most, but not all, the lifeguard on duty that afternoon--a teenage girl who becomes the central focus of a town looking for an object onto which their fears and grief can be projected--is seen as responsible for the tragedy. In overlapping narratives, the truth about the drowning gradually surfaces, and the strange arbitrary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636282873
• ISBN13: 9781636282879
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 248 Pages