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W. W. Norton & Company
July 2011
On Sale: July 5, 2011
348 pages
ISBN: 0393079899
EAN: 9780393079890
Hardcover
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Fiction
From the National Book Award and National Book Critics
Circle Award finalist—an odyssey of a novel about a girl's
search for love and identity.
Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in
sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching
gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life
any easier. After the violent death of her father, in which
she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her
boat, with only a few supplies and a biography of Annie
Oakley, in search of her vanished mother. But the river,
Margo's childhood paradise, is a dangerous place for a young
woman traveling alone, and she must be strong to survive,
using her knowledge of the natural world and her ability to
look unsparingly into the hearts of those around her. Her
river odyssey through rural Michigan becomes a defining
journey, one that leads her beyond self-preservation and to
the decision of what price she is willing to pay for her
choices.
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