Lou's dad has been addicted to painkillers since an accident left him unable to work. He's a good, loving dad, but kind of useless. Lou's mother, Z...
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Jan 22, 2012
Lanora
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Review is located here: http://onreading.tumblr.com/[return][ret... introduce Lou. Lou is a teenager living with her father. She is extremely unhappy about her entire existence, her job – social life – living situation and of course her father and mother. Her mother is an eccentric famous poet that felt raising a child wasn’t for her, so Lou was pushed on to her father were she has been exposed to drugs and alcohol growing up, until her father became sick and is now the general house care tak
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Nov 30, 2011
Jasmyn9
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Lou is a teenager living in Alberta with her father, and she's miserable. She has no life, no friends, and her father's deteriorating health and prescription drug addictions are driving her mad. Her mother, a famous poet and author, left minutes after she was born. They reconnected when she was a older, but things have happened since that makes it difficult for them to speak to each other. When the unthinkable happens and Lou's dad ends up in the hospital after a stroke, she is shipped off to li
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Sep 13, 2011
Shelley
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Lou is fifteen and is basically in charge of taking care of her father who hurt his back in a work accident. Many times it is hard to tell who the real adult is. Due to unforeseen circumstances with her father's health, Lou must suddenly uproot and stay with her mother who abandoned her as a baby and she has little contact with. She only knows that she basically cramps her mother's style and can't wait to go back to her dad's. Then a mysterious woman appears at her mother's book reading and
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Nov 19, 2011
Kara
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It’s the end of a long hot summer in Alberta’s Badlands, and fifteen year old Lou is dreaming of escape. Then an unexpected crisis turns her dream into reality and Lou is forced to leave Alberta and stay with the mother she has never known. Lou is overflowing with anger, hurt, and, most of all, unanswered questions. Why did her mother never want her? She is convinced the answers lie hidden in her mother’s novels, and is determined to find the truth… no matter what the cost.
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It’s the end of a long hot summer in Alberta’s Badlands, and fifteen year old Lou is dreaming of escape. Then an unexpected crisis turns her dream into reality and Lou is forced to leave Alberta and stay with the mother she has never known. Lou is overflowing with anger, hurt, and, most of all, unanswered questions. Why did her mother never want her? She is convinced the answers lie hidden in her mother’s novels, and is determined to find the truth… no matter what the cost.
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