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340 pp.
| Tundra |
September, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-1-77049-313-1$19.95
(2)
YA
Waiting for her soldier brother to return from WWII, almost-fourteen-year-old Rachel asserts that she's conquered childhood. That's just the first of many levels of lies, concealed truths, and pretense explored in this engrossing, finely wrought novel set in a small Ontario town. Rachel is a sympathetic, naive narrator, and Johnston plays out her rich themes thoroughly yet with great subtlety.