The drowning season

"Esther the White, a Russian emigre, chooses to live cut off from normal human experience. Only by calling upon all the healing powers of love can the members of Esther's family make peace with themselves and each other."
"The spellbinding story of two women named Esther who discover the power of the past over the present Esther the Black is eighteen years old and ready to leave the Compound, the collection of cottages on the North Shore of Long Island where she has lived all her life. But as July turns to August and her family braces for the height of Drowning Season, she realizes that she may not be able to escape her family's legacy. Her father will find a way through the locked sea-wall gate and try to drown himself in the harbor, her mother will be too hung over to leave her cottage for days at a time, and."@en
"Upon turning eighteen, Esther the Black plans to escape from her hateful grandmother, Esther the White, who lives in seclusion on Long Island, where each summer her son Phillip tries to kill himself by walking into the ocean."
""The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all."--Publisher information."