The very marrow of our bones / Christine Higdon.
Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothersOn a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing.Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table. Wally, it says, I will not live in a tarpaper shack for the rest of my life . . .Lulu tells no one, and months later she buries the note in the woods. At the age of ten, she starts running ― and forgetting ― lurching through her unraveled life, using the safety of solitude and detachment until, at fifty, she learns that she is not the only one who carries a secret.Hopeful, lyrical, comedic, and intriguingly and lovingly told, The Very Marrow of Our Bones explores the isolated landscapes and thorny attachments bred by childhood loss and buried secrets.
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- ISBN: 9781770414167
- Physical Description: 484 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : ECW, 2018
- Copyright: ©2018
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General Note: | "A misFit book." |
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Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Pemberton and District Public Library.
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Pemberton and District Public Library | F HIG (Text) | 31894000546530 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |