Springsweet
Published on 17. April 2012
288 pages
978-0-547-82267-9 (ISBN)
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Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fianc, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leavesBaltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowedaunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishingability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as aspringsweet to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden ofholding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land.Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water.Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply survivingand start living.
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Saundra Mitchell is a screenwriter and author. The Vespertine was her first novel starring Zora and her cousin Amelia, and her debut novel,Shadowed Summer, was a 2010 nominee, a Junior Library Guild selection, and an ALAN pick. She lives in Indianapolis with her husband and her two children.
