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03600aim a22003615 4500 001 D784F070E03511EE90C8BC2A24ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240312010034 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 231102s2024 xx nnnn ||fn eng d 020 $a 9798212898898 : CMD 040 $d SILO 050 $a PS 082 $a 813 100 $a Churchill, Amanda/ Osmanski, Joy (NRT)/ Wilkinson, Kelly (NRT) 245 04 $a The Turtle House [10 CDs] / Amanda Churchill. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a Mew York. $b Blackstone Pub $c 2024 300 $a 10 audio discs (12 hrs.) 520 $a A heartbreakingly resonant debut, The Turtle House is a tender, big-hearted story about women, family, and the complicated history of Texas. These characters, and their tentative, flawed stumblings toward grace, will stay with me.Elizabeth Wetmore, author of Valentine 520 $a Sweeping yet intimate, Amanda Churchills Turtle House spans cultures and continents. Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire you. Together, they find a way through in this gripping debut.Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City 520 $a Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry. 520 $a Its spring 1999, and 25-year-old Lia Cope and her prickly 73-year-old grandmother, Mineko, are sharing a bedroom in Curtain, Texas, the ranching town where Lia grew up and Mineko began her life as a Japanese war bride. Both women are at a turning point: Mineko, long widowed, moved in with her son and daughter-in-law after a suspicious fire destroyed the Cope family ranch house, while Lia, an architect with a promising career in Austin, has unexpectedly returned under circumstances she refuses to explain. 520 $a Though Lia never felt especially close to her grandmother, the two grow close sharing late-night conversations. Mineko tells stories of her early life in Japan, of the war that changed everything, and of her two great loves: a man named Akio Sato and an abandoned Japanese country estate they called the Turtle House, where their relationship took root. As Mineko reveals more of her early lifetales of innocent swimming lessons that blossom into something more, a friendship nurtured across oceans, totems saved and hidden, the heartbreak of love lost too soonLia comes to understand the depth of her grandmothers pain and sacrifice and sees her Texas family in a new light. She also recognizes that its she who needs to come cleanabout the budding career she abandoned and the mysterious man who keeps calling. 520 $a When Minekos adult children decide, against her wishes, to move her into an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life, one that they hope will offer the safety and sense of belonging they both need, no matter the cost. 520 $a A story of intergenerational friendship, family, coming of age, identity, and love, The Turtle House illuminates the hidden lives we lead, the secrets we hold close, and what it truly means to find home again when it feels lost forever. 650 $a Asian American & Pacific Islander $x Fiction. 650 $a Coming of Age $x Fiction. 650 $a Women $x Fiction. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20240312010059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D784F070E03511EE90C8BC2A24ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search