03517cam a2200469 i 4500 1281588768 MeVbMML 20240919142244.0 211031t20222022nyu 000 f eng d 9781416571261 1416571264 (OCoLC)1281588768 (OCoLC)1281133163 (OCoLC)1281243045 AJM n-us--- n-us-ca 813/.6 23/eng/20220716 W636 .p Wiggins, Marianne, author 18371 Properties of thirst : a novel / Marianne Wiggins First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022 ©2022 528 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Fifteen 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 BPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund. World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction 12161 Ranches California Fiction 8777 Internment camps California Fiction 18372 Ranchers California Fiction 18373 Ranch life California Fiction 18374 Families California Fiction 18375 Internment camps United States Fiction 18376 Japanese Americans Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Fiction 18377 California Fiction 8778 Historical fiction 129 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 Novels. lcgft 50 .b175063771 ddc BOOK 30077 30077 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-09-19 28.00 2 WIGG 66533 2025-01-22 2025-01-07 2024-09-19 BOOK 1