My DrowningBoth heart rending and life affirming, Jim Grimsleys semi autobiographical novel shows the strength and courage of the human spirit. Ever since Ellen Tote can remember, she has dreamed of her mother slowly slipping beneath the surface of a river, almost as if she were drowning. Why, asks Ellen, has Mama come to this river swollen with rain? Now, with her own children all grown and her two husbands and her siblings long gone, Ellen looks back to her