Title: Bitter Lake
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Single-parent families, Fiction, Fiction, family life, general
LC classification: PS3558.A624246 B58 1996