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1 online resource (294 pages) |
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At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I, as they attempt to rid themselves of the Anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughters vanish in the middle of the night, the family must piece together what happened while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains. In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for them, through the stark farmlands to unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized and misunderstood in their small town in the wake of the war, the Hesses fear the worst.Bottomland is a haunting story of pride, love, and betrayal, set among the rugged terrain of Iowa, the fields of war-torn Flanders, and the bustling Chicago streets. With exquisite lyricism, Michelle Hoover deftly... |
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A German family in the Iowa plains tries to fight the rising tide of anti-German sentiment in the years following World War I while searching for their two youngest daughters who vanished suddenly in the middle of the night. |
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Missing children -- Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- German Americans -- Fiction.
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Farm life -- Fiction.
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Neighbors -- Fiction.
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Farm life. |
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Missing children. |
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Neighbors. |
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Fiction. |
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Literature. |
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Iowa -- Fiction.
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Iowa. |
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Domestic fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Hoover, Michelle. Bottomland New York : Black Cat, [2016] 9780802124715 (NjBwBT)bl2016011610 (OCoLC)911365022 |
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9780802190246 : $15.99 |
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0802190243 : $15.99 |
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