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Silver Slayter, Rebecca.
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Sisters -- Fiction.
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Blind women -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Dawson (Yukon) -- Fiction.
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Silver Slayter, Rebecca.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Blind women -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Dawson (Yukon) -- Fiction.
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In the
land
of
birdfishes
/ Rebecca Silver Slayter.
by
Silver Slayter, Rebecca.
HarperCollins Canada, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION SIL
Subjects
Sisters -- Fiction.
Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Blind women -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
Dawson (Yukon) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781443407380 (2014 HarperPerennial trade pbk.)(LRP)
9781443407373 (trade pbk.)
Description:
388 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
In The
Land
of
Birdfishes
is an unexpected and intricate debut novel by Nova Scotian writer Rebecca Silver Slayter. Although the story begins with two sisters who are blindfolded by their father after their mother's suicide, it quickly transitions to decades later. Aileen, who is partially blind, travels to Dawson City, Yukon, where her fully blind sister, Mara, is supposedly living. Instead she finds Jason, Mara,s angry son, with many stories to share.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Canadian fiction.
First novel.
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J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION SIL
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