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Bowers, Cedar.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
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Bowers, Cedar.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
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Astra
/ Cedar Bowers.
by
Bowers, Cedar.
McClelland & Stewart, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION BOW
Subjects
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780771012891 (trade pbk.)
Description:
304 p. ; 21 cm
Summary:
"Raised on a remote BC commune by a neglectful father,
Astra
Brine eventually leaves for Calgary, where she struggles to find her way in the world, her life becoming a study of the thin line between dependence and love, need and desire. As her path intersects with others--often only briefly, but always intensely--she will encounter people who, by turns, want to rescue, control, become, change, and escape her, revealing difficult yet shining truths about who they are and what they yearn for. There is the childhood playmate who comes to fear
Astra
's unpredictable ways; the stranger who rescues her from homelessness and then has to wrestle with his own demons; the mother who hires
Astra
as a babysitter even as her own marriage goes off the rails; the man who takes a leap of faith and marries her. Even as
Astra
herself remains the elusive yet compelling axis around which these narratives turn, her story reminds us of the profound impact that an individual can have on those around her, and the power struggles at play in all our relationships, no matter how intimate. A beautifully constructed and revelatory novel,
Astra
explores what we're willing to give and receive from others, and how well we ever really know the people we love the most."--Publisher.
Genre:
First novel.
Canadian fiction.
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