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Leaving the Land

by Douglas Unger · 1984

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" ... The story of a remarkable survivor, the daughter of a turkey farmer, whose shattering, romantic entanglements are always doomed by her larger obsession, to hold on to the unlovable land which sapped her parents' blood.''—cover.

Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisMiddle WestMiddle WestMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 313 pages

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