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Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz

Label
Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Drowning Ruth
Responsibility statement
Christina Schwarz
Summary
Overwhelmed by her duties nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War, Amanda Starkey retreats to her family's Wisconsin farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and her three-year-old niece, Ruth. But Amanda soon comes to see that her old home is no refuge. And one terrible night a year later, her sister mysteriously drowns beneath the ice-covered lake. When Mathilda's husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds Amanda in charge of both Ruth and the farm
Target audience
adult
Content