Long Wave

In Long Wave, Daisy Johnson delivers a luminous, unsettling work of literary fiction that moves like tidewater—quietly, then all at once—through motherhood, memory and the pull of family history.

Ori was found as a child on a wild, empty island, clutching stones and missing the one thing she can’t stop searching for: her mother. Now, with a baby of her own, exhaustion and love blur into something stranger, and the sounds in her head start to feel like a message from the past. Years earlier, young Ruth witnesses a disappearance in the river that no one believes, setting her on a path shaped by secrecy, control and longing for escape.

Perfect for readers drawn to book club fiction, psychological literary novels, and stories of motherhood and loss with a coastal, almost-mythic atmosphere.

Add Long Wave to your shelf and let Johnson’s haunting rhythms carry you in.