New York Times Notable BookWashington PostBest Book Of The YearAmazon's Top 100: Editor's ChoiceUsa Today Best Book Of The YearDellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man.She hikes up a mountain road behind her house toward a secret tryst, but instead encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome.As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town, and a larger world, in a flight toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed.
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ISBN | 9780062124272 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Political, FICTION: Women, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Christian / Romance / General, FICTION: Christian / Western, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, Novel, Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Harper Collins (US) |
Jahr | 20130604 |
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