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After River - by Donna Milner (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Young Adult Canadian Book Award 2009 3rd Winner
- Author(s): Donna Milner
- 352 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical
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About the Book
A fresh new talent combines family secrets, long-forgotten trauma, and romantic entanglements in a mesmerizing debut novel reminiscent of the works of Anita Shreve and Carol Shields.From the Back Cover
Before River, everything was perfect. . . .
Growing up on a Canadian dairy farm less than two miles from the American border, fifteen-year-old Natalie Ward knows little of the outside world. But her loving, close-knit family is the envy of young and old alike in the nearby town of Atwood. Natalie adores her three brothers--especially Boyer, the eldest, whom she idolizes. But everything changes one hot July afternoon in 1966 when a long-haired stranger appears at their door--a soft-spoken American, a Vietnam War resister, who will test the family's morals and beliefs, and set in motion catastrophic events that will shatter Natalie's relationships with those she most dearly loves.