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At once personal and sweeping, Bottomland - the anticipated second book from Michelle Hoover - uses the Hess family in the years after World Conflict I as they try to clear themselves of the anti-German sentiment that kept a stain on the name. However when the youngest two daughters vanish in the center of the night, the family must piece together what took place while struggling to maintain their life on the unforgiving Iowa plains. Within the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings frantically search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighborhood friends' properties, and the unfamiliar world of far-off Chicago. Have the girls run away to another farm? Have they gone to the city to seek a new life? Or were they abducted? Ostracized, misunderstood, and progressively more isolated in their firmly knit small town in the wake of the battle, the Hesses fear the worst. Advised in the voices of the family patriarch and his children, this is a haunting literary secret that spans ages before its resolution. Hoover deftly examines the intrepid ways people can forge lives of their own despite the dangerous road blocks of prejudice and oppression.
