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These Empty Places
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Claire Roth chose security at Lake Toxaway over an earlier love, only to watch the 1916 dam failure empty the lake and destroy the resort world on which that choice depended. Fourteen years later she remains committed to the hope of restoration, even as economic confidence collapses across the country and the abandoned landscape becomes a monument to failed speculation.
Lena Hawkins arrives with a husband whose stock-market fortune has vanished, leaving the former socialite estranged from her family and searching for work. Claire employs her to help build a community library intended to create jobs and widen access to education. Their friendship develops as each woman is offered a different route away from loss. Set around the Wall Street Crash and the long aftermath of the Lake Toxaway disaster, the novel asks whether renewal requires rebuilding what disappeared or relinquishing it.
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