And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun

And the River Drags Her Down

Jihyun Yun

Random House Children's Books · Hardcover · October 7, 2025

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She has always known the rules: Never resurrect anything larger than the palm of her hand.

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Who it’s for
Family grief and ancestral magic feed a slow-burn horror with an increasingly eerie edge.
Themes
Grief and resurrection, Family secrets, Revenge
Pacing
Steady

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She has always known the rules: Never resurrect anything larger than the palm of her hand. But that was before her sister died. . . . The stunning hardcover of And the River Drags Her Down features gorgeous stenciled edges and a matching case stamp!

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A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE BULLETIN BLUE RIBBON AWARD LIST “Yun beautifully captures the haunting of family myths in this slow-burn horror. Eerie and poignant, And The River Drags Her Down will sweep readers into its relentless current.” —Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times bestselling author of She Is a Haunting When her older sister is found mysteriously drowned in the river that cuts through their small coastal town, Soojin Han disregards every rule and uses her ancestral magic to bring Mirae back from the dead. At first, the sisters are overjoyed, reveling in late-night escapades and the miracle of being together again, but Mirae grows tired of hiding from the world. She becomes restless and hungry . . . Driven by an insatiable desire to finish what she started in life, to unravel the truth that crushed her family so many years ago, Mirae is out for revenge. When their town is engulfed by increasingly destructive rain and a series of harrowing, unusual deaths, Soojin is forced to reckon with the fact that perhaps the sister she brought back isn’t the one she knew.

A Haunting Return

Family grief and ancestral magic feed a slow-burn horror with an increasingly eerie edge.

Come here for

  • A sisterly bond tested by resurrection, grief, and revenge
  • A coastal-town mystery shadowed by strange deaths and destructive rain

Expect

  • Slow-building dread with supernatural stakes
  • A poignant, unsettling tangle of family secrets and loss

Where it sits

YA Horror84%
Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens42%
YA Supernatural Thrillers33%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Horror
  • Death & Grief for Teens
  • YA Supernatural Thrillers
Authors
Jihyun Yun
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
October 7, 2025
Format
Hardcover
Theme
Grief and resurrection · Family secrets · Revenge
Reading lane
YA Horror