The Roots of the Olive Tree: A Novel - Brossura

Santo, Courtney Miller

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062130528 ISBN 13: 9780062130525

Casa editrice: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2013

Riassunto

When a geneticist arrives to study their unusual lifespans, the Keller family—five generations of firstborn women who live together in the same house on a secluded olive grove—is shaken to its very roots as new revelations and shocking secrets come to light. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Courtney Miller Santo teaches creative writing to college students and lives in Memphis with her husband, two children, and retired racing greyhound.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Courtney Miller Santo's compelling and evocative debut novel captures the joys and sorrows of family—the love, secrets, disappointments, jealousies, and forgiveness that tie generations to one another

Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. Strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin.

While the Keller women are bound by blood, living together has not always been easy. And it is about to become more complicated now that Erin, the youngest, is back, alone and pregnant, after two years abroad with an opera company. Her return and the arrival of a geneticist who has come to study the family's unusual longevity ignites explosive emotions that these women have kept buried and uncovers revelations that will shake them all to their roots.

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• Editore: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062130528
• ISBN 13: 9780062130525
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336