All the land to hold us
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013].
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Book
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x, 324 pages ; 24 cm
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Southside - Adult | Fiction Bass, R | Checked Out | May 4, 2024 |
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013].
Language
English
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Roaming across the salt flats and skirting the salt lake, Richard, a geologist working for an oil company, hunts for fossils under the spell of Clarissa, the local beauty who plans to use her share of their plunder to get out of small, dusty Midland for good. A generation earlier, a Depression era couple, Max and Marie Omo, numbly mines for salt along the banks of the briny lake until the emotional terrain of their marriage is suddenly and irrevocably altered. The strange, surreal arrival of a runaway circus elephant careening across the sand sets in motion Marie's final break from Max and heralds the beginning of her second chance. Consequences reverberate through the years and the dunes when Marie becomes indelibly linked to Richard's own second act.
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