Water Witches
Chris Bohjalian [Bohjalian, Chris]
One of the very first novels by the number one bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant: a prescient, environmentalist political drama in which a small-town lawyer finds himself torn between his career and his family, and between money and the natural world.
Patience Avery is a dowser—a "water witch." With a pair of divining rods and her natural gifts, she can locate lost items, missing people—and aquifers deep within the earth. This last skill is more in demand than ever, as the normally lush, green countryside of Patience's native Vermont is in the grip of the worst drought in years: stunted cornstalks rasp in the hot July breeze, parched vegetable gardens wither and die, and the Chittenden River has shrunk to a trickle. Patience does what she can to help her neighbors find new water sources for exhausted wells, but she knows better than most that this crisis is a symptom of worse things to come.
Not that she can convince...
Patience Avery is a dowser—a "water witch." With a pair of divining rods and her natural gifts, she can locate lost items, missing people—and aquifers deep within the earth. This last skill is more in demand than ever, as the normally lush, green countryside of Patience's native Vermont is in the grip of the worst drought in years: stunted cornstalks rasp in the hot July breeze, parched vegetable gardens wither and die, and the Chittenden River has shrunk to a trickle. Patience does what she can to help her neighbors find new water sources for exhausted wells, but she knows better than most that this crisis is a symptom of worse things to come.
Not that she can convince...
年:
2020
出版社:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
059308179X
ISBN 13:
9780593081792
文件:
EPUB, 1.10 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020