Miller’s Valley

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By Anna Quindlen

For generations the Millers have farmed Miller’s Valley. Mimi is eleven when the book opens in the 1960s, listening at doors, piecing together what the adults will not say: about her mother, her damaged uncle, her brother in Vietnam, and the aunt who has not left the house in years.

The government wants the valley for a reservoir, and has been buying farms one at a time. Over the years the unthinkable begins to look inevitable, and Mimi grows up several times over, through secrets, through the wrong man, and through the slow disappearance of the place she is from.

First published 2016