num_pages: 270
description: Fifteen-year-old Sophie Behr, pregnant by a Mexican ranch hand, flees her sheep-ranch home and her fanatically religious mother and finds her long-lost father, but long-buried family secrets force her to flee again for refuge and reconciliation with her grandmother. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: MARCHLANDS: A Novel
titlecomplete: MARCHLANDS: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 126
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Scribner