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The Marsh Queen

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內容簡介 洛妮在史密森尼博物館擔任鳥類生態學的自然畫繪師，對小時候喜歡在沼澤划船親近自然的她，是夢寐以求的工作，而一通弟弟菲力遠從佛州打來的電話，卻即將改變她的生活。 他們的媽媽茹絲罹患失智症且意外摔傷不良於行，洛妮只能暫時放下熱愛的工作，回到她逃離已久的老家和過去。 小鎮對這個離鄉已久的「外來者」不怎麼友善，菲力和愛掌控大小事的妻子泰咪對洛妮更沒好臉色，母親茹絲的脾氣則因為失智更加暴躁、時常咆哮。 洛妮痛恨她的故鄉，加上洛妮的父親波伊德在她小時候因一場離奇的溺水意外身亡，這個老家對她來說只剩下悲傷的回憶，本來想快速處理完就立刻回去紐約，但一張神祕的字條卻讓她改變主意：「我必須告訴妳有關波伊德的死。」 洛妮一邊爬梳黑暗的童年記憶，一邊在佛州小鎮上尋找線索，而她尚未察覺的恐怖威脅正慢慢浮現... For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this “marvelous debut” (Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces her past and the secrets held in the waters of Florida’s lush swamps and wetlands. Loni Murrow is an accomplished bird artist at the Smithsonian who loves her job. But when she receives a call from her younger brother summoning her back home to help their obstinate mother recover after an accident, Loni’s neat, contained life in Washington, DC, is thrown into chaos, and she finds herself exactly where she does not want to be. Going through her mother’s things, Loni uncovers scraps and snippets of a time in her life she would prefer to forget—a childhood marked by her father Boyd’s death by drowning. When Loni comes across a single, cryptic note from a stranger—“There are some things I have to tell you about Boyd’s death”—she begins a dangerous quest to discover the truth, all the while struggling to reconnect with her mother and reconcile with her brother and his wife. To make matters worse, she meets a man whose attractive simple charm threatens to pull her back towards everything she’s worked to escape. Torn between worlds—her professional accomplishments in Washington, and the small town of her childhood—Loni must decide whether to delve beneath the surface into murky half-truths and avenge the past or bury it, once and for all.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Virginia HartmanVirginia Hartman has an MFA in creative writing from American University and is on the faculty at George Washington University. Her stories have been shortlisted for the New Letters Awards and the Dana Awards. The Marsh Queen is her first novel. Find out more at VirginiaHartman.com.

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