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[#] Download Here : Properties of Thirst
Marianne Wiggins? final masterwork, an American epic that should stand alongside the classics. Set in the California desert over the course of World War II, Properties of Thirst follows members of a ranching family and the people that come into their lives over the course of the war, including LA watermen, Department of Interior workers, and Japanese-American internees, as they all grapple with love, loss, and an ever-changing American landscape.Rocky Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch in Three Chairs from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised his twins, Stryker and Sunny. When Lou dies of polio, Rocky's world is thrown into disarray. Years later, Rocky is still in mourning. And when bombs strike Pearl Harbor?where Stryker has recently been deployed?Rocky and his family find themselves once again facing an incomprehensible loss. Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Schiff, an envoy for the Department of
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