000			03073cam a2200349 i 4500
001			1280406385
003			OCoLC
005			20250916131145.0
008			211022s2022 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2021048431
020			_a9781982171605
035			_a(OCoLC)1280406385
040			_cAJM
042			_apcc
043			_an-us-fl
100	1		_aHartman, Virginia, _d1959- _eauthor. _922473
245	1	4	_aThe marsh queen : _ba novel / _cby Virginia Hartman.
264		1	_aNew York : _bGallery Books, _c[2022]
300			_a369 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Loni Mae Murrow's life in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained. Single and in her mid-thirties, she's a bird artist at the Smithsonian who spends her days at a desk, making elaborate drawings of belted kingfishers and scrub-jays and purple gallinules. Then she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult, has grown frail and been resentfully consigned to assisted living, and her younger brother, Phil, juggling a job and a wife and two young children, needs her help. Loni may not be her mother's only child, but there are some things only a daughter can do. Although Florida, with its suffocating heat and difficult memories, is a place she thought she'd managed to get away from, Loni soon discovers that home is not so easily forgotten. Going through her mother's things, she finds a cryptic note from a woman whose name she doesn't recognize: "There are some things I have to tell you about Boyd's death," it reads. Boyd is her father, a man who drowned in a boating accident out on the marsh when Loni was twelve and Phil just a baby. The circumstances of his death, long presumed a suicide, turn out to be murkier than anyone thought. Against her better judgment, Loni finds herself drawn into a quest to discover the truth about how he died. Against the mottled landscape of her youth, she is led both away from and toward the truth about the past and its betrayals. One by one, the forces keeping her in Florida become stronger. Someone begins to threaten her as she uncovers pieces of her father's story, but she can't figure out who. In the midst of this danger, she struggles to reconnect with her mother through the remnants of their past and to reconcile with her brother and his pushy, provincial wife. And she fights an attraction to a man who encourages her to stay in the South even as she determines to return to her job in Washington. At last moved to avenge the wrongs done to her family, Loni has to decide whether to join the violence or end it"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aArtists _vFiction. _99327
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _96219
650		0	_aSecrecy _vFiction. _95925
651		0	_aFlorida _vFiction. _98011
655		7	_aThrillers (Fiction) _2lcgft _9486
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _950
907			_a.b177617664
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c30877 _d30877