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Marianne Wiggins' final masterwork, an American epic that should stand alongside the classics. Set in the California desert throughout World War II, it follows members of a ranching family and the people that come into their lives throughout the war, including LA watermen, Department of Interior workers, and Japanese-American internees, as they all grapple with love, loss, and an ever-changing American landscape.
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Marianne Wiggins is the author of seven books of fiction including and . She has won an NEA grant, the Whiting Writers' Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and she was a National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-finalist in fiction for
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