A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen , National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a big, bold book ( USA TODAY ) 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.
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..
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.
Properties of Thirst is a magnificent (Colum McCann) novel that is both universal and intimate.
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.
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.
Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they\'ve loved and lost so much.
Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy.
Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike.
As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war.
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.
Rockwell Rocky Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation.
A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen , National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a big, bold book ( USA TODAY ) 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
