โ Alterio, Maxine
๐ Fiction
๐
2012;2014
๐ Penguin New Zealand;Penguin Global
๐ English
โ 167 KB
Lives We Leave Behind
โฆ LIBER โฆ
All the Things We Leave Behind
โ Scribed by Riel Nason
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction
A novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning The Town That Drowned.
It's 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their busy roadside antique stand for the summer. Her restless older brother, Bliss, has disappeared, leaving home without warning, and her parents are off searching for clues. Violet is haunted by her brother's absence while trying to cope with her new responsibilities. Between visiting a local hermit, who makes twig furniture for the shop, and finding a way to land the contents of the mysterious Vaughan estate, Violet acts out with her summer boyfriend, Dean, and wonders about the mysterious boneyard. But what really keeps her up at night are thoughts of Bliss's departure and the white deer, which only she has seen.
All the Things We Leave Behind is about remembrance and attachment, about what we collect and what...
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