Introducing an eloquent, sensual new Canadian voice that rings out in a first novel that is exquisitely rich and stunningly original. Roop is a sixteen-year-old village girl in the Punjab region of undivided India in 1937 whose family is respectable but poor โ her father is deep in debt and her
What My Body Remembers
โ Scribed by Friis, Agnete
- Book ID
- 110006697
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781616956028
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โฆ Synopsis
From New York Times bestselling author Agnete Friis comes the chilling story of a young mother who will do whatever it takes to protect her son.
Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it--but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours--sometimes days--at a time and leave her physically and psychically drained.
After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych ward, she discovers her son, Alex, has been taken from her by the state and placed with a foster family. Driven by desperation, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in northern Denmark where she was born. Her grandmother's abandoned house is in grave disrepair, but she can live there for free until she can figure out how to convince social services that despite everything,...
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