# Old Border Road

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- Book: [Old Border Road](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-froderberg/old-border-road) ([Old Border Road.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-froderberg/old-border-road.md))
- Authors: [Susan Froderberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-froderberg)
- Publisher: back_bay
- ISBN: 978-03-1609-878-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-01-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Katherine is 17, living alone in the beautiful, desolate landscape of southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, her father busy with his new family. Meeting Son, the scion of a local rancher, seems like deliverance. They marry and live as a family in his parents' venerable adobe house, but it soon becomes clear that Son is a man who, as his father says, has a 'young heart near withered beneath the breastbone.' Katherine must find her own way during a dangerous months-long drought, when everything seems to be disintegrating around her. Susan Froderberg's incantatory language-and her deep knowledge of both the complexities of a small, deeply-rooted place and the human heart-make OLD BORDER ROAD soar.