Category:
Historical Fiction
Regular worth:
$12.99
Deal worth:
$6.99
Deal begins:
October 27, 2022
Deal ends:
October 27, 2022
A National Bestseller
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 traditional: a sweeping masterwork set throughout World War II concerning the which means of household and the restrictions of the American Dream.
Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely defending his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is right here the place he and his beloved spouse Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it’s right here the place Rocky has mourned Lou within the years since her dying.
As Sunny and Stryker attain the cusp of maturity, the nation teeters on the brink of battle. Stryker decides to affix the struggle, deploying to Pearl Harbor not lengthy earlier than the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his household discover themselves dealing with yet one more incomprehensible tragedy.
Rocky is set to guard his remaining household and the land the place they’ve liked and misplaced a lot. But when the federal government decides to construct a Japanese-American internment camp subsequent to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even greater threats than the LA watermen he’s battled for years. Complicating issues is the truth that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to construct the camp, who solely begins to know the horror of his job after it might be too late, turns into infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes household.
Properties of Thirst is a novel that’s each common and intimate. It is the story of a altering American panorama and an examination of one of the darkest intervals on this nation’s previous, instructed by the tales of the person loves and losses that weave collectively to kind the material of our shared historical past. Ultimately, it’s an unflinching distillation of our nation’s essence—and a celebration of the bonds of love and household that persist in opposition to all odds.
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