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The Heart of a Thirsty Woman
The Heart of a Thirsty Woman
Author: Lana Witt
The misadventures of a mismatched couple, a woman's quest for her missing sister, and the secrets of life revealed in Carlos Castaneda's writings mark this off-beat novel as truly special. The Heart of a Thirsty Woman gives new evidence of Witt's singular voice and immense talent. "Pick made me who I am, but it don't tell the w...  more » For twenty-seven-year-old Josie Tolliver -- a bookworm who has taken both William Shakespeare and Carlos Castaneda to heart -- her hometown of Pick, Kentucky, is starting to feel very confining. It's 1976 and disco is alive and kicking, but Josie refuses to believe this. She daydreams of going West, convinced that if she can just get to Arizona or California, she'll find people on every street corner divulging the secrets of life. Josie's childhood sweetheart and now husband, Clarence, on the other hand, doesn't want to go anywhere. Clarence, a whiz at all things mechanical, dreams of expanding his TV repair shop into the first TV satellite-dish business in eastern Kentucky. The Heart of a Thirsty Woman is the exuberant, rollicking, and ultimately moving story of what happens when, through a series of calamities and mishaps, Josie heads West, dragging Clarence behind her. As Josie launches a search for her long-lost sister, Cheyenne, and pursues her quest for her idol Castaneda's don Juan, she slowly comes to the hard-won realization that no one -- not Cheyenne, not Clarence, not her wonderful father, and not even Carlos Castaneda -- can show her the way.
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ISBN-13: 9780684841526
ISBN-10: 0684841525
Publication Date: 6/14/1999
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I really enjoy her writing. Loved Slow Dancing on dinosaur bones, her first novel. This one's good too...


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