drown

Fans assumed that The Fate of Ophelia would tether Swift Shakespeare's story of a noblewoman who drowns in a fit of mania after being driven mad by grief.

"Our voice, the voice that's always fought for them is getting drowned out by the carnival of charlatans and the circus of snake oil salesmen."

At this point, the two sides are just drowning each other out.

She becomes so wrapped up in her own fame that she doesn’t remember that there was a friend there that day, filming the fatal accident, and he’s drowning in his grief and guilt.

Choi's sixth novel starts with a 10-year-old girl taking a walk on a beach with her father, then waking up alone on the shore, with her dad presumed drowned.