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Schwartz, Virginia Frances

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277 pp. | Holiday | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1716-6 $$17.95
(4) YA Born one week after her father's death in a mining accident, narrator Frances is blessed with the mystical ability to relate events starting before her birth. More the tale of her hard-nosed Croatian-immigrant mother than the somewhat transparent Frances's own coming-of-age story, this sprawling but well-written novel follows the struggling family across Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s.
Reviewer: Norah Piehl

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