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On the shores of darkness, there is light : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

On the shores of darkness, there is light : a novel

Summary: Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to fund her escape, she runs errands for the seniors who inhabit the Shangrila, the decrepit apartment building that houses her fractured family. Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet tries to navigate the clueless adults around her, dumpster dives for the flotsam and jetsam that fuels her art, and attempts to fathom her complicated feelings for Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. On the other hand, Irwin's love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. She's his compass. But Irwin himself must untangle the web of the human heart.

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  • ISBN: 9781770412965 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    365 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : ECW Press, 2016.

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General Note:
CatMonthString:june.16
Subject: Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
Hydrocephalus in children -- Fiction
Girls -- Fiction
Mixed media (Art) -- Fiction
Determination in girls -- Fiction
Child artists -- Fiction
Resourcefulness -- Fiction
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
Hydrocephalus in children -- Fiction
Escapes -- Fiction
Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Prince Rupert Library Stru (Text) 33294001988179 Adult Fiction - Second Floor Volume hold Available -

Summary: Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to fund her escape, she runs errands for the seniors who inhabit the Shangrila, the decrepit apartment building that houses her fractured family. Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet tries to navigate the clueless adults around her, dumpster dives for the flotsam and jetsam that fuels her art, and attempts to fathom her complicated feelings for Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. On the other hand, Irwin's love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. She's his compass. But Irwin himself must untangle the web of the human heart.
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