Book Hangover Thoughts: A Drowned Maiden's Hair

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An open letter to: Laura Amy Schlitz.

I'd like to acknowledge the plot of A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, as I think it helped place the cause of my anxiety a little.

Ms. Schlitz, your protagonist, Maud, was “adopted” from an orphanage by two older women, sisters who run a séance “service” and need her to pose as the spirit of their wealthy clients’ deceased family members. But that’s not what triggered me.

 What triggered me is the fact that Maud actually came into the orphanage with her siblings. A farmer couple, the Vines, decided to take in her older brother as a farmhand and her younger sister just because she was too adorable to refuse, but they decided they didn’t want three kids, so they left Maud behind. Who does that? You can't take an orphan away from their only surviving family just because you only want one or two and not expect bad karma! Even Maud’s questionably-moraled guardians agreed that this was just plain cruel.
When you help someone in need, you can't pick and choose who you'll help! That's not helping, that's just being lazy and selfish. You can't just take the one you view as useful or the cute one and leave the rest behind!

You can’t add conditions to helping someone in need just because it’s easier for you! Even their excuse was pathetic. That they didn’t want Maud because she threw a completely justified tantrum about not wanting to be left alone. Of course she was upset! They could’ve simply agreed to take all three, which would have calmed her down and gotten them even more help with their farm. And the Vines wonder why their crops are failing. That’s called karma. Karma for severing an already broken family just because they only wanted the two that fit their needs.

I’d actually like to ask if Maud’s older brother claimed her after he turned eighteen or if the Vines came to their senses and let the kids be together as they should have been all along. Not to complain, sometimes, I just have to know. The Vines deserve their failed crops. Its people like them who make needy kids afraid of the foster system.


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