The Drowning Girl: A Memoir is a 2012 dark fantasy novel by American writer Caitlín R. Kiernan, set in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Drowning Girl follows the story of India Morgan Phelps, an unreliable narrator struggling with hereditary mental illness.

India states that she has decided to write down the bizarre events that occurred two years ago (the entirety of the novel is written as a fictionalized memoir).

Some of them relate to Eva Canning, while others revolve around mysterious artists Phillip George Saltonstall and Albert Perrault, as well as a painting titled "The Drowning Girl," which India saw on display at a museum as a child.

As a result of her inability to tell fact from fiction, her growing obsession with Eva Canning, and Abalyn's abandonment, India suffers a mental breakdown.

"[5] At Tor.com, a reviewer admitted that they might not be able to do the novel justice, due to how dimensional the novel is, that "The Drowning Girl: A Memoir is not an easy novel, but it rewards tenfold the effort and engagement of the reader who is willing to put in the work."

They later relate that "the intricacies... would be entirely impossible without Kiernan's rich, intense, spot-on perfect prose;" and "it's challenging to encompass in words how brilliant of a book this is.

[9] In a review for Strange Horizons, Niall Alexander agreed, calling the novel Kiernan's "most ambitious long-form fiction [up to 2012], and its successes are multifarious, its failures truly few.