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Control # 1 hbl99080621
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20221201160542.0
Fixed Data 8 211031t20222022nyu 000 f eng d
Tag 19 19    $a1281133163$a1281243045
ISBN 20    $a9781416571261$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $a1416571264$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $z9781416573456$q(eBook)
ISBN 20    $z1416573453$q(eBook)
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)1281588768
Obsolete 39    $a332371$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aYDX$beng$erda$cYDX$dBDX$dY$5$dPX0$dIH9$dOCLCF$dYU6$dVP@$dYDX$dEAU$dNMP
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---$an-us-ca
LC Call 50 14 $aPS3573.I385$bP76 2022
Dewey Class 82 04 $a813/.6$223/eng/20220716
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWiggins, Marianne,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aProperties of thirst :$ba novel /$cMarianne Wiggins.
Edition 250    $aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2022.
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2022
Phys Descrpt 300    $a528 pages ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Abstract 520    $aFifteen 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.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zUnited States$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aRanches$zCalifornia$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aInternment camps$zCalifornia$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aRanchers$zCalifornia$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aRanch life$zCalifornia$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aFamilies$zCalifornia$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aInternment camps$zUnited States$vFiction.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aJapanese Americans$xForced removal and internment, 1942-1945$vFiction.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aCalifornia$vFiction.
Genre/Form 655  7 $aHistorical fiction.$2lcgft
Genre/Form 655  7 $aNovels.$2lcgft