Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It's a novel to cherish, composed with great humanity and humour." -Colum McCann It's about shame and loss and recovery and beauty. It's a love story, and a family tale, and a song of history. "This magnificent novel opens every little nerve of language and sends jolts of electricity along the spine. This event will be hosted by Blue Willow Books and is co-presented with Parnassus Books and Bookshop Santa Cruz.
VIRTUAL EVENT: Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream.
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