“The snow at the bottom of the sea” is a novel by Matteo Bussola and published by Einaudi Editore 25 June 2024, pp. 192, € 17,00. Synopsis: A father and a son, inside a room. Facing each other, as they ever were. Each a mirror of the other. The two of them, together, in a child neuropsychiatry department. There are other parents, in that department, other children. Adolescents who refuse food or who harm themselves, who experience the exhausting struggle of growing up, within families unable to give a name to their torment.