03641cam a2200481 i 45000010011000000030008000110050017000190080041000360200018000770200015000950350060001100400008001700430021001780820028001990920013002271000038002402450056002782500045003342640040003792640011004193000023004303360026004533370028004793380027005075201876005345630071024106500056024816500039025376500049025766500041026256500043026666500041027096500052027506500081028026510030028836550028029136550036029416550023029779070016030009420014030169990017030309520112030471281588768MeVbMML20240919142244.0211031t20222022nyu           000 f eng d  a9781416571261  a1416571264  a(OCoLC)1281588768z(OCoLC)1281133163z(OCoLC)1281243045  cAJM  an-us---an-us-ca04a813/.6223/eng/20220716  aW636b.p1 aWiggins, Marianne,eauthor91837110aProperties of thirst :ba novel /cMarianne Wiggins  aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition 1aNew York :bSimon & Schuster,c2022 4c©2022  a528 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  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  aBPL: David Winn Bishop and Isabel MacPherson Bishop Memorial Fund. 0aWorld War, 1939-1945zUnited StatesvFiction912161 0aRancheszCaliforniavFiction98777 0aInternment campszCaliforniavFiction918372 0aRancherszCaliforniavFiction918373 0aRanch lifezCaliforniavFiction918374 0aFamilieszCaliforniavFiction918375 0aInternment campszUnited StatesvFiction918376 0aJapanese AmericansxForced removal and internment, 1942-1945vFiction918377 0aCaliforniavFiction98778 0aHistorical fiction9129 7aHistorical fiction.2lcgft9129 7aNovels.2lcgft950  a.b175063771  2ddccBOOK  c30077d30077  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcAFd2024-09-19g28.00l2oWIGGp66533r2025-01-22s2025-01-07w2024-09-19yBOOK11