Mother, Night, and Water Bartholomew "Bat" True, Chief of Police in the small town of Sunnyside, Maine wants to know what brought Arlo Cook home after vanishing decades earlier. Arlo is asking himself the same question; he knows there's a reason, but fears to learn it. Some secrets are best hidden, even from one's self. A tale of two families: the Cook family and the Trues share the founding of this small town over three centuries ago, but today only one family is thriving; the other marches toward a fated tragedy. Young ...
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Mother, Night, and Water Bartholomew "Bat" True, Chief of Police in the small town of Sunnyside, Maine wants to know what brought Arlo Cook home after vanishing decades earlier. Arlo is asking himself the same question; he knows there's a reason, but fears to learn it. Some secrets are best hidden, even from one's self. A tale of two families: the Cook family and the Trues share the founding of this small town over three centuries ago, but today only one family is thriving; the other marches toward a fated tragedy. Young Becky True finds herself in an unlikely friendship with her classmate, the afflicted, beguiling Annie Cook, whose impoverished life of abuse and prejudice could not be more different from her own. Becky's father, Adam, struggles to comprehend his deceased father's rejection and his conflicted relationship with his brother, Bat, while his research into the town's history unearths a shocking, unsolved mystery. Mother, Night, and Water explores the lives of two families, and the people of this small town, as they confront old prejudices, and gain a lesson in compassion from two girls whose improbable friendship is tested amid unalterable events.
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