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Wiggins, Marianne.
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Ranchers -- Fiction.
Ranches -- California -- Fiction.
Internment camps -- California -- Fiction.
Ranch life -- California -- Fiction.
Families -- California -- Fiction.
Internment camps -- United States -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Spur Award.
California -- Fiction.
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Wiggins, Marianne.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Ranchers -- Fiction.
Ranches -- California -- Fiction.
Internment camps -- California -- Fiction.
Ranch life -- California -- Fiction.
Families -- California -- Fiction.
Internment camps -- United States -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Spur Award.
California -- Fiction.
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Properties of thirst : a novel / Marianne Wiggins.
by
Wiggins, Marianne.
Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION
WIG
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States --
Fiction
.
Ranchers --
Fiction
.
Ranches -- California --
Fiction
.
Internment camps -- California --
Fiction
.
Ranch life -- California --
Fiction
.
Families -- California --
Fiction
.
Internment camps -- United States --
Fiction
.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 --
Fiction
.
Spur Award.
California --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781416571261 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
528 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
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.
Awards:
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel, 2023.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
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