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Francie's got a gun / Carrie Snyder.

by Snyder, Carrie.

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022.

Small cities -- Fiction.

Girls -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

9780735281912 (hc.)

285 p. ; 21 cm.

On a June afternoon in a small city, a wild-eyed girl named Francie dashes down a neighbourhood street, clutching a gun. She doesn't know exactly what she's running from, and she doesn't know what she's heading towards. All she understands is the need to survive. To save herself, she has no choice but to run--and to save those she loves, she must hold tight to that gun. Swirling around Francie is a chorus of friends, family, and neighbours, each person with a different view of her. As we hear from these voices--Francie's steadfast best friend, Alice; Alice's comically unaware mother, Sally, and struggling mathematician father, David; Francie's distressed and distracted mother, Marietta, and troubled, unwell father, Luce--a fractured portrait emerges of the girl and the village surrounding her. And at last we arrive at a still point in the chaos: a tall tree where Francie takes shelter, and where the meaning of her flight--for herself, and for the people around her--becomes clear.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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