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I read this when I was about 16, and Christy's "by their garbage shall ye know them" speech was life changing. Love this book. I've read it multiple times, but haven't re-read it in about 15 years. I should again.
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When the book opens, Morag Gunn is a writer living in Ontario, with an 18-year-old daughter who is worryingly intent on hitchhiking to the west of Canada. In flashbacks (called "memorybank movies") we slowly hear about Morag's childhood as an orphan in the small rural town of Manawaka, where she was taken in by an impoverished couple, and how she survived and escaped to college while always carrying that life in her deepest being.
I loved this book! I've enjoyed everything I've read by Margaret L ...more
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