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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, tell your daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, family ties severed with the violent death of her father, takes to the Stark River in a rowboat left to her by her grandfather and sets out to find her runaway mother, using her knowledge of the natural world and ability to see into the hearts of men and women to survi
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