Drowning Ruth
(2001, original release: 2000)
Fiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
FICTION/SCHWARZ,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Ballantine Books, 2001
©2000
©2000
EDITION
First Ballantine Books edition
DESCRIPTION
xii, 346 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780345439109, 0345439104 :, 0345439104, 9780345439109
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
"Oprah's book club"--Cover
Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and a young niece, Ruth. An Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller in hardcover, Drowning Ruth, now in paperback, is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart. Schwarz's first novel explores themes of family love, sibling rivalry, duty, loyalty, and a possible murder
Includes a reading group discussion guide