Houston is used to being the official wallflower of Flintβs EMS community. Not only has he grown up that way, because he was always so soft-spoken, but he was usually too busy cleaning up his twinβs messes to have time to worry about anything else. Then, when his twin falls in love, Houston finds hi
Ragged Islands
β Scribed by Don Hannah
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
- Year
- 2007;2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307369404
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Dark, nothing but darkness, thick and deep, and it wasn't home, she could sense that, it was somewhere else. Susan Ann was trying to think, trying to remember the last thing she remembered -- what day was this?" (p. 2)
It is September 11, 2001, and eighty-five-year-old Susan Ann Roberts is coming to the end of her life. In and out of consciousness, she is bedridden in a Toronto hospital, confused as to what has brought her to this place. Her daughter, Lorraine, and beloved granddaughter, Meg, are by her side but they seem unable (or unwilling) to take her home.
Susan Ann isn't exactly sure where home is anymore. Lorraine had insisted her mother move to Toronto, worried about her living alone in the big house back east. Ever since, Susan Ann has been trapped--stuck in an unfamiliar city in a too-small apartment where things are so cramped that the dresser drawers in her bedroom open only partway.
Susan Ann resolves that she will return home to the...
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