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Properties of thirst : a novel

Title

Properties of thirst : a novel / Marianne Wiggins.

Author

Wiggins, Marianne

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
©2022

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Description

528 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife, Lou, raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they've loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese American internment camp next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he's battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family. Properties of Thirst is a novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country's past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation's essence--and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Call Number

JFE 22-4302

ISBN

9781416571261
1416571264

OCLC

1281588768

Author

Wiggins, Marianne, author.

Title

Properties of thirst : a novel / Marianne Wiggins.

Publisher

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Copyright Date

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4302

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