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$16.00 US
On sale Jun 30, 2020 | 368 Pages | 9780593081785

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Patience Avery is a dowser—a “water witch.” Her natural gifts enable her to locate lost items, missing people, and aquifers deep within the earth. This last skill is more in demand than ever, as the normally lush countryside of her native Vermont is in the grip of the worst drought in years. Patience knows better than most that this crisis is only the start: a sign of worse things to come.

Yet Patience’s opinion means little to her brother-in-law, Scottie Winston. Scottie’s spent the long, dry summer lobbying for permits to expand Powder Peak, a local ski area that’s his law firm’s biggest client. The resort is seeking to draw water for snowmaking from the Chittenden River, despite opposition from environmentalists who fear that the already weakened waterway will be damaged beyond repair. As the pressure mounts—from his wife and daughter on one side, and a slew of powerful politicians and wealthy developers on the other—Scottie finds himself pushed closer and closer to a life-changing moral crisis.

With a new note from Chris Bohjalian, Water Witches is a prescient, environmentalist political drama that’s even more relevant today than it was a quarter of a century ago.
 
“Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian’s grace and power.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Bohjalian is a master of literary suspense.” —The Washington Post

“[Bohjalian’s] books are . . . filled with artfully drawn characters and great, passionate storytelling.” —The Seattle Times

“A writer of unusual heart.” —The Boston Globe
© Victoria Blewer
CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including his most recent The Jackal's Mistress, as well as The Lioness, Hour of the Witch, Midwives, and The Flight Attendant, which has been made into a MAX limited series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include The Red Lotus, The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; and The Double Bind. His novels Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty- five languages. He is also a playwright (Wingspan and Midwives). He lives in Vermont and can be found at chrisbohjalian.com or on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Litsy, and Goodreads. View titles by Chris Bohjalian

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Patience Avery is a dowser—a “water witch.” Her natural gifts enable her to locate lost items, missing people, and aquifers deep within the earth. This last skill is more in demand than ever, as the normally lush countryside of her native Vermont is in the grip of the worst drought in years. Patience knows better than most that this crisis is only the start: a sign of worse things to come.

Yet Patience’s opinion means little to her brother-in-law, Scottie Winston. Scottie’s spent the long, dry summer lobbying for permits to expand Powder Peak, a local ski area that’s his law firm’s biggest client. The resort is seeking to draw water for snowmaking from the Chittenden River, despite opposition from environmentalists who fear that the already weakened waterway will be damaged beyond repair. As the pressure mounts—from his wife and daughter on one side, and a slew of powerful politicians and wealthy developers on the other—Scottie finds himself pushed closer and closer to a life-changing moral crisis.

With a new note from Chris Bohjalian, Water Witches is a prescient, environmentalist political drama that’s even more relevant today than it was a quarter of a century ago.
 
“Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian’s grace and power.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Bohjalian is a master of literary suspense.” —The Washington Post

“[Bohjalian’s] books are . . . filled with artfully drawn characters and great, passionate storytelling.” —The Seattle Times

“A writer of unusual heart.” —The Boston Globe

Author

© Victoria Blewer
CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including his most recent The Jackal's Mistress, as well as The Lioness, Hour of the Witch, Midwives, and The Flight Attendant, which has been made into a MAX limited series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include The Red Lotus, The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; and The Double Bind. His novels Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty- five languages. He is also a playwright (Wingspan and Midwives). He lives in Vermont and can be found at chrisbohjalian.com or on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Litsy, and Goodreads. View titles by Chris Bohjalian

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