| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
A successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family's life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister's death in this mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novelFor a Terrebonne, the home place is the safe haven, the convergence of waters, the place where the beloved dead are as real as the living. . . . The only Terrebonne who made it out, Alma thought she was done with Montana, with its cruel poverty, bleak winters, and stifling ways. Hard work and steely resolve got her to Yale, and now she's an attorney in a high-profile Seattle law firm, too consumed by her career to think about the past. But an unexpected call from the Montana police takes the successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls her into the family trouble she thought she'd escaped. Her lying, party-loving younger sister, Vicky, is dead. The Billings police say that a very drunk Vicky wandered away from a party and died of exposure after a night... |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2014. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 830 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB). |
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Families -- Fiction.
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Love stories.
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Women lawyers -- Fiction.
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Sisters -- Death -- Fiction.
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Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
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Montana -- Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780062323446 |
| ISBN |
9780062323460 electronic bk |
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0062323466 electronic bk |
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