02408cam a2200421 i 4500 1141480598 TxAuBib 20240207120000.0 231226s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780393248432 hardcover $30.00 0393248437 hardcover $30.00 (OCoLC)1415973464 TxAuBib rda Campbell, Bonnie Jo, 1962- The waters : a novel / Bonnie Jo Campbell. First edition. New York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] ©2024. 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20240207. Family secrets Fiction. Violence Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women Fiction. Girls Fiction. Mother-daughter relationship Fiction. Man-woman relationship Fiction. Romans. Michigan Fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels.