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A Grandmother Begins the Story

โœ Scribed by Michelle Porter


Book ID
111504800
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Weight
231 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780735245372

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โœฆ Synopsis


Five generations of M etis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel.
Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.
Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother.
Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife.
Genevieve is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without.
And Mame, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to loose herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find...


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