The Waters: A Novel
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"If you loved Where the Crawdads Sing, you're going to love, and I'm saying love, our first read of 2024." тАФJenna Bush Hager, TODAY Show
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.
On an island in the Great Massasauga SwampтАФan area known as тАЬThe WatersтАЭ to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, MichiganтАФherbalist and eccentric Hermine тАЬHerselfтАЭ Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngestтАФthe beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose ThornтАФhas left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy тАЬDonkeyтАЭ Zook, to grow up wild.
Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn.
With a тАЬruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical worldтАЭ (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.
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Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of six works of fiction, including American Salvage, finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Once Upon a River, a national bestseller. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, AWPтАЩs Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and a Pushcart Prize, she lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, with donkeys.
