I knew that at home where I belonged I could set myself right again."Īmanda does return home, and she is a welcome sight to her sister Mattie and Mattie's three-year-old daughter Ruth. Convinced that she is making her patients worse instead of better, Nurse Amanda Starkey has decided to take leave of her past tending wounded soldiers and return home to the farm where she grew up, "where the snowy hills were as white as bleached linen and where my sister rocked her little girl to sleep beside the kitchen stove while she waited for her husband to come back from the war. The setting is a family home on Wisconsin's Lake Nagawaukee. Drowning Ruth is a haunting debut novel about the ties that bind families together and the insidious secrets that can rend them apart.
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