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Almost Eden
Anita Horrocks
It is the hot prairie summer of her twelfth year and Elsie is at a crossroads. Her beloved mother who is mentally ill has been hospitalized, and Elsie thinks that the breakdown is all her fault. Mental illness is simply not discussed in Elsie?s close-knit Mennonite community and she is rudderless. Nothing Elsie does seems to go right: there?s no pleasing her bossy older sister; she forgets to feed the cat, so her father gives it away; she?s supposed to watch out for her younger sister, but she lets her come home alone from the swimming pool (despite the lurking menace of a weird stranger around town); and she bargains with God to make her mother well again ? to no evident avail.
Elsie?s conversations with God, her struggle to overcome guilt, and her honest desire to prove herself are laced with a wicked wit and clarity of vision. Almost Eden is a beautiful portrait of a town, a family, and a young woman willing to challenge the things that don?t make sense to her, and to fix the things that don?t seem right.
288 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 4, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780887767425 |
| Publishers | Tundra Books |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 133 × 194 × 19 mm · 308 g |
| Language | English |
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