The waters : a novel / Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Bonnie Jo, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Violence--Fiction.

Violence.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Michigan--Fiction.

Michigan.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Campbell, Bonnie Jo, 1962- Waters.

ISBN:

9780393248432

0393248437

OCLC:

1415973464