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In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a devastating storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret It's August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away - while tending bar in New Orleans - Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her. Though the hometown Vale comes back to is not the one she left eight years earlier, she finds herself falling back into the lives of the family she thought she'd long since left behind. As Vale begins her search, the narrative opens up and pitches back and forth in time to follow three generations of women - a farming widow, a back-to-the-land dreamer, and an owl-loving hermit - as they seek love, bear children, and absorb losses.



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Robin MacArthur

Robin MacArthur (1978-) lives on the hillside where she was born in Vermont with her husband and two young children. She is the author of HALF WILD: Stories (Ecco, 2016) and HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN (Ecco 2018) . She won the Pen/NewEngland award for fiction in 2016 and has been a finalist for the Vermont Book Award and a two-time finalist for the New England Book Award.www.robinmacarthur.com



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