Bottomland by Michelle Hoover

Bottomland by Michelle Hoover

At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland--the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover--follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains.In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighbors' houses, and the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized, misunderstood, and increasingly isolated in their tightly knit small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses fear the worst. Told in the voices of the family patriarch and his children, this is a haunting literary mystery that spans decades before its resolution. Hoover deftly examines the intrepid ways a person can forge a life of their own despite the dangerous obstacles of prejudice and oppression.

Michelle Hoover is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University, as well as a professor at GrubStreet, where she directs the Novel Incubator program. She is a 2014 NEA Fellow, as well as a Bucknell University Writer-in-Residence, a MacDowell Fellow, and the winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award. The Quickening, her debut novel, was named a Massachusetts Book Award Must Read in 2010. She was born in Iowa and now resides in Boston.

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ISBN 13	9780802124715
ISBN 10	0802124712
Title	Bottomland
Author	Michelle Hoover
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2016-03-01
Number of pages	336
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.