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The Waters (Large Print Edition)
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ISBN13: 9781420514117
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Published: Jun 26 2024
Pages: 775
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.25 Width: 5.65 Depth: 8.75
Language: English
This large print edition features an easy-to-read larger type size while preserving the complete text of the original edition.
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as The Waters to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine Herself Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest--the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn--has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy Donkey Zook, to grow up wild.
Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn.
With a ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.
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