Bitter Lake
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Ann Harleman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Single-parent families -- Fiction.
Description: In this novel set in a mill town with the tangled greenery of Pennsylvania's wooded hills as backdrop, Judith Hutchins and her daughters struggle with the latest disappearance of Gort - fisherman, astronomer, and sometime husband and father. Judith, devoting herself to a new job to keep the family going, finds herself involved with a lover, while fourteen-year-old Lil takes matters into her own hands, determined to find her father and bring him to account.