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 saying that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Despite a years-long estrangement from Bonnie, Vale drops everything and returns home to look for her. But the hometown that Vale comes back to is not the one she left eight years earlier, and 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, an owl-loving hermit - as they seek love, bear children, and absorb loss. All the while, Vale's search has her unwittingly careening toward a family-origin secret more stunning than she ever imagined.
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ISBN:9780062444424 (hc)
Physical Description:print regular print 354 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,2018.