01692cam a2200373 i 4500 515290071 TxAuBib 20211005120000.0 201110s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020050338 9780525657569 0525657568 (OCoLC)1221017172 TxAuBib rda Williams, Joy, 1944- Harrow : a novel / Joy Williams. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. ix, 203 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Harrow follows the picaresque journey of Khristen--a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen's failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she washes up at a "resort" on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call "Big Girl." In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. 20211005. Boarding schools Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Resorts Fiction. Environmental degradation Fiction. Dystopias in literature. Dystopias Fiction. Fantasy fiction. Ecofiction. Apocalyptic fiction.