{"product_id":"book-i23w","title":"The Waters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eOn an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan—herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn—has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eDonkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eWith a “ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world” (Jane Smiley, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Bonnie Jo Campbell’s \u003cem\u003eThe Waters\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel, a living myth, and a place. … Imagine a mash-up of Flannery O’Connor and the Brothers Grimm, of Angela Carter’s reimagined fairy tales and William Faulkner’s gothic sublime. And yet, \u003cem\u003eThe Waters\u003c\/em\u003e is all Bonnie Jo. …\"\u003c\/strong\u003e—DIANE SEUSS, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003cem\u003eFrank: Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49353342353712,"sku":"BDi23w","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49503964856624,"sku":"ZEi23w","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49503964889392,"sku":"ZMi23w","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/478132-i23w-Square.jpg?v=1734343605","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i23w","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}