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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Kobayashi, Tamai, 1966-     Subjects     Sisters -- Fiction.     Bullying -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Ostrich farms -- Fiction.     Parental grief -- Fiction.     Alberta -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kobayashi, Tamai, 1966-       by title:      Prairie ostrich : a ...       by call number:      FICTION KOB     Search the Web     Kobayashi, Tamai, 1966-     Sisters -- Fiction.     Bullying -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Ostrich farms -- Fiction.     Parental grief -- Fiction.     Alberta -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Prairie ostrich : a novel / Tamai Kobayashi. by Kobayashi, Tamai, 1966- Goose Lane, c2014. Call #: FICTION KOB Subjects Sisters -- Fiction.   Bullying -- Fiction.   Families -- Fiction.   Ostrich farms -- Fiction.   Parental grief -- Fiction.   Alberta -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780864926807 (trade pbk.) Description:  200 p. ; 21 cm. Summary:  Bookish eight-year-old Imogene Murakami, nicknamed 'Egg,?-? lives with her parents and her teenaged sister, Kathy, on an ostrich farm in Bittercreek, Alberta. Egg's older brother Albert has died in an accident, her father has moved to the barn, and her mother drinks to submerge her overwhelming grief. Egg has only Kathy to look after and out for her and Kathy takes the responsibility seriously, going after bullies who torment Egg at school, telling her stories whose endings she changes (she has Anne Frank escaping to America and working as an actress on Broadway). Kathy dreams of escape from the tiny town and the smothering pain of her parents' grief, and it seems as if she might make it, with the help of a basketball scholarship. Her best friend Stacey makes escape sound like a project they can undertake together. Kathy and Stacey become lovers, but when it becomes clear that Kathy feels she cannot leave Egg, Stacey makes a decision to switch her allegiance, to turn her back on her friend. She starts dating a boy, and he and his friends torment Kathy, sensing that she is not something they can categorize. The sisters' relationship is threatened when Egg's teacher reads aloud from Charlotte's Web and Egg herself reads the end the actual end ? of The Diary of Anne Frank. How can Egg trust someone who has lied to her about everything? Genre:  Canadian fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION KOB Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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