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03264aam a2200361 i 4500 001 167993E827B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240611010142 008 231020t20242023||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2023048586 020 $a 9798885797832 035 $a (OCoLC)1405845460 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Basham, Brendan Shay,. 245 1 $a Swim home to the vanished $h [large print] / $c Brendan Shay Basham. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a [Farmington Hills] : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2024. 300 $a 355 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic."--Tommy Orange, author of There, There After the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Diné history and thought--a mesmerizing, original tale in the tradition of works by Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, and Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. When the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief of its own. The same day that Damien arrives, a young woman from the community's most powerful family is being laid to rest. A stranger in town, Damien is the object of gossip and suspicion, ignored by all except the dead girl's mother, Ana Maria, who offers Damien a room and a job. Grateful for her kindness, Damien soon begins to fall under Ana Maria's charismatic spell. But how long can he resist the rumors swirling through town suggesting she might have had something to do with her daughter's death? Or deny his strange kinship with one of Ana Maria's surviving daughters, Marta, who knows too well the grief that follows the loss of a sibling--and who is driven by a fierce need for revenge? Swiftly, Damien finds himself caught in a power struggle between the brujas, a whirlwind battle that threatens to sweep the whole village out to sea. Resonant with the Diné creation story and the unshakeable weight of the Long Walk--the forced removal of the Navajo from their land--Swim Home to the Vanished explores the human capacity for grief and redemption, and the lasting effects it has on the soul"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20240318. 650 $a Grief $v Fiction. 650 $a Death $v Fiction. 650 $a Siblings $v Fiction. 650 $a Navajo Indians $v Fiction. 650 $a Witches $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Large type books. $2 fast 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 fast 655 7 $a Magic realist fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l RFPC397 $d 20240611011134.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=167993E827B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search