WINNER of the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice award! Top 40 book for Canada Reads 2013! Rebee Shore's life is fragmented. She's forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth. _The Shore Girl_ follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen
The Shore Girl
- Book ID
- 126233803
- Publisher
- NeWest Press
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Standards
- ISBN
- 1927063183
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✦ Synopsis
WINNER of the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice award!Top 40 book for Canada Reads 2013!Rebee Shore's life is fragmented. She's forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth.The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen years as she grapples with her mother's fears and addictions, and her own desire for a normal life. Through a series of narrators—family, friends, teachers, strangers, and Rebee herself—her family's dark past, and the core of her mother's despair, are slowly revealed.The Shore Girl is a mosaic of Rebee: of her origins, of her past and present; from darkness and grief, to understanding and hope for a brighter future.
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