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Shelter

For sisters Maggie and Jenny, growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s is nearly perfect until their father dies in a logging accident and their mother drops them off at a neighbors, never to return.

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  • "For sisters Maggie and Jenny, growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s is nearly perfect until their father dies in a logging accident and their mother drops them off at a neighbors, never to return."@en
  • "A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother. For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect. Seasons in their tiny rustic home were peppered with wilderness hikes, building shelters from pine boughs and telling stories by the fire with their doting father and beautiful, adventurous mother. But at night, Maggie'a born worrier'would count the freckles on her father's weathered arms, listening for the peal of her mother's laughter in the kitchen, and never stop praying to keep them all safe from harm. Then her worst fears come true: Not long after Maggie's tenth birthday, their father is killed in a logging accident, and a few months later, their mother abruptly drops the girls at a neighbor's house, promising to return. She never does. With deep compassion and sparkling prose, Frances Greenslade's mesmerizing debut takes us inside the extraordinary strength of these two girls as they are propelled from the quiet, natural freedom in which they were raised to a world they can't begin to fathom. Even as the sisters struggle to understand how their mother could abandon them, they keep alive the hope that she is fighting her way back to the daughters who adore her and who need her so desperately. Heartwarming and lushly imagined, Shelter celebrates the love between two sisters and the complicated bonds of family. It is an exquisitely written ode to sisters, mothers, daughters, and to a woman's responsibility to herself and those she loves."@en
  • "Twee Canadese zusjes proberen in de jaren zeventig van de 20e eeuw uit te zoeken waarom hun moeder hen in de steek heeft gelaten nadat hun vader is verongelukt."
  • "In Northern Canada in the sixties, Jenny and Maggie are sisters who live with their wild, imaginative mother and their father in Duchess Creek. Dad, a logger who knows the ways of the woods, takes Maggie on camping trips where he teaches her survival skills and shelter building. But when he dies in a logging accident, their mother takes the girls on camping trips to make them self-sufficient. However, Mom goes missing after leaving them with friends while she works at a logging camp... What kind of shelter can two young girls make then?"
  • "The relationship of two daughters with their missing mother is traced through family stories."
  • "Set forty years ago in Northern Canada SHELTER is the touching story of two girls, aged twelve and fourteen. Their mother was imaginative and wild, their father, 'Mr Safety', a logger who knew the ways of the woods and tought his youngest how to survive, how to find and make a shelter in all weathers, in any conditions."
  • "Set forty years ago in Northern Canada, Shelter is the touching story of two girls, aged twelve and fourteen. Their mother was imaginative and wild, their father, 'Mr Safety', a logger who knew the ways of the woods and tought his youngest how to survive, how to find and make a shelter in all weathers, in any conditions."@en
  • "After the tragic death of their father in a logging accident, sisters Maggie and Jenny see their idyllic mountain life fall apart as their mother abandons them to be raised by a childless couple."
  • ""A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story SHELTER draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life a breathtaking BC landscape. Maggie is a born worrier who really believes that trouble comes in threes and that threats to her family's cozy but fragile life in Duchess Creek are never far."--Publisher."

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