Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen
Mimi Miller lives on the farm her family has owned for generations, a hardscrabble existence at best. A government agent is visiting the families in Miller’s Valley, trying to get them to sign off on their farms to make way for a new reservoir. Quindlen tells the family’s story from Mimi’s perspective, a coming-of-age in the sixties tale with family secrets, false friends and a brother who returns from Vietnam a changed and damaged man. As Mimi attempts to rise above her past, the water is rising in the valley, covering all she knew. Quindlen reminds us that we carry our memories of home no matter where life brings us, and that our memories live on and endure.
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