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By Lynn Stegner

Kate Riley isn't the type of heroine we meet in such a lot American novels. Self-centered, shape-shifting, pushed from one guy to a different and one urban to the subsequent, she is all too actual yet under no circumstances the unswerving and regular homebody of idealized womanhood. after we first come upon her, Kate is set to endure exploratory mind surgical procedure for a situation she herself has fabricated. Sobered through the gravity of the method, she commences a trip of reminiscence that takes us again to the Saskatchewan village the place she grew up and to the singular occasion that altered her ceaselessly and irrevocably set the process her life.

From her youth, within which she was once held captive to a mom long past mad, via her grownup lifestyles, which unfolds as a enchanting series of guys, deserted young children, and perpetual circulation, Kate’s tale is one in all desperation and memorable invention, a surprisingly American story, narrated by means of one in every of our most unique writers.

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