The Heart of a Thirsty Woman
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish date: 06/01/1999
Description:
For twenty-seven-year-old Josie Tolliver -- a bookworm who has taken both William Shakespeare and Carlos Castaneda to heart -- her marriage and her hometown of Pick, Kentucky, have begun to feel 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 comer divulging the secrets of life. In contrast, Josie's husband, Clarence, doesn't want to go anywhere. He dreams of expanding his TV repair shop into the first TV satellite-dish business in eastern Kentucky.
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The Heart of a Thirsty Woman is the exuberant, rollicking, ultimately moving story of what happens when, through a series of calamities, Josie and Clarence head west. As Josie pursues her quest for her missing sister, Cheyenne, and for Castaneda's Don Juan, she 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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