FREE: The Water and the Blood by Nancy E. Turner

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Hardcover, 401 pages. Good condition.

Description:
"East Texas in the years of the Second World War. Philadelphia Summers, known against her will as Frosty.
From the novels, opening scenes, Frosty's eyes survey the landscape around her — white rural America — with the awestruck clarity of an innocent burned by sin. In her mother and sisters she sees fear and small-mindedness; in the eyes of local boys she sees racial hatred and hunger for war. When that war finally comes, it offers her a chance for escape -to California, and the caring arms of Gordon Benally a Native-American soldier. But when she returns to Texas she must face the rejection of a town still gripped by suspicion — and confront the memory of the crime that has marked her soul since adolescence.
Propelled by the quiet power of one woman's voice, The Water and the Blood is a moving and unforgettable portrait of an America of haunted women and dangerous fools — an America at once long perished and with us still."