Pages
25
Year
2013
Language
English

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Over one summer at her grandparents' house in the South Saskatchewan River valley, a young girl struggles to decipher the mysterious language of adults-and attempts to figure out the relationship between her great-uncle Aloetius and Cherry, a woman whose absence defined Aloetius's life.
Jacqueline Baker writes with confidence and unvarnished honesty, and she has the rare ability to make the familiar brilliant and finely understood. Hers are universal themes: the tensions of family life; relationships defined by what isn't said, rather than what is; and our connection to a past that may be real or imagined.
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