The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.
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ISBN: 1565116925
ISBN: 9781565116924
Physical Description:sound disc8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note: Abridged."Oprah's Book Club"--Cover."#1 International bestseller"--Cover.Winner of the Commonwealth prize for best first fiction, the CAA Harlequin literary award for fiction and the Darmouth award.
Participant or Performer Note: Read by Nikki James.
Awards Note:
Winner of the Commonwealth prize for best first fiction, the CAA Harlequin literary award for fiction and the Darmouth award.