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Informationen zum Autor Kristin Bair O'Keeffe has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , Poets & Writers Magazine , the Baltimore Review , and the Gettysburg Review . She lives in Shanghai, China. Klappentext It is 1883, and all of Klara Bozic's girlish dreams have come crashing down as she arrives in Thirsty, a gritty steel town carved into the slopes above the Monongahela River just outside of Pittsburgh. She has made a heartbreaking discovery. Her new husband Drago is as abusive as the father she left behind in Croatia. In Kristin Bair O'Keeffe's debut novel, Klara's life unfolds over forty years as she struggles to find her place in a new country where her survival depends on the friends who nurture her. "Thirsty" follows the unlikely events that keep Klara's spirit aloft as the threads that hold her family together finally fray and come undone, leaving Klara to decide if she has the courage to carve out her own peaceful spot in the world. "Thirsty is a rare and special type of book - an intelligent page turner, a forward-thinking historical drama, a picture painted with equal shades of light and darkness. The language is consistently surprising and often intensely beautiful, the characters rich with nuance." - David Crouse, author of The Man Back There "A debut novel that is artfully told and full of literary surprises, Kristin Bair O'Keeffe's Thirsty tackles oppression at the turn of the twentieth century without wincing... Stark, poetic, and brimming with hope, Thirsty glimpses the uncomfortable truth about what it means to house a battered heart and live a life shackled by seemingly insurmountable circumstances." - Christina Katz, author of Writer Mama and Get Known before the Book Deal Thirsty is a beautiful tale, vivid and gently told. It is the story of one woman's incredible strength of spirit, and a reminder of the foundation contemporary America is built upon - one of unspeakable cruelty, and Job-like suffering, as well as generosity and unbreakable hope. Don De Grazia, author of American Skin Zusammenfassung It is 1883, and all of Klara Bozic’s girlish dreams have come crashing down as she arrives in Thirsty, a gritty steel town carved into the slopes above the Monongahela River just outside of Pittsburgh. She has made a heartbreaking discovery. Her new husband Drago is as abusive as the father she left behind in Croatia....
