Properties Of Thirst

by Marianne Wiggins

Simon & Schuster

     This  is the story of a family making a home in California in the middle of the 20th century. More importantly, it is  a story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. The building of the internment camp, Manzanar, is happening in the same valley that the damaged Rhodes family is trying to save from the devastation caused by the California water wars. 

   I read this several months ago and find myself thinking about it again, for pretty obvious reasons.

   It is  a large book, but well worth the time you'll invest in it.

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