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Title:
Zorrie : a novel
Summary:
"As a girl, Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the only constant in her young life. After losing both her parents, Zorrie moved in with her aunt, whose own death orphaned Zorrie all over again, casting her off into the perilous realities and sublime landscapes of rural, Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, Zorrie survived on odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under the stars, before finding a position at a radium processing plant. At the end of each day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material. But when Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finally finds the love and community that have eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg. And yet, even as she tries to build a new life, Zorrie discovers that her trials have only begun. Spanning an entire lifetime, a life convulsed and transformed by the events of the 20th century, Laird Hunt's extraordinary novel offers a profound and intimate portrait of the dreams that propel one tenacious woman onward and the losses that she cannot outrun." -- Amazon.com.
Physical Description:
161 pages ; 22 cm
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing,
Publication Date:
2021
ISBN:
9781635575361
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

©2021
Award Note:
National Book Award, Fiction, Finalist, 2021
Call Number:
HUNT
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