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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Plunkett, Shelagh.     Subjects     Plunkett, Shelagh -- Childhood and youth.     Plunkett, Shelagh -- Homes and haunts -- Guyana.     Plunkett, Shelagh -- Homes and haunts -- Indonesia.     Fathers and daughters -- Biography.     Coming of age -- Biography.     Guyana -- Social life and customs.     Indonesia -- Social life and customs.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Plunkett, Shelagh.       by title:      The water here is ne...       by call number:      918.81 P737w     Search the Web     Plunkett, Shelagh.     Plunkett, Shelagh -- Childhood and youth.     Plunkett, Shelagh -- Homes and haunts -- Guyana.     Plunkett, Shelagh -- Homes and haunts -- Indonesia.     Fathers and daughters -- Biography.     Coming of age -- Biography.     Guyana -- Social life and customs.     Indonesia -- Social life and customs.       MARC Display

The water here is never blue : intrigue and lies from an uncommon childhood / Shelagh Plunkett. by Plunkett, Shelagh. Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, 2013. Call #: 918.81 P737w Subjects Plunkett, Shelagh -- Childhood and youth.   Plunkett, Shelagh -- Homes and haunts -- Guyana.   Plunkett, Shelagh -- Homes and haunts -- Indonesia.   Fathers and daughters -- Biography.   Coming of age -- Biography.   Guyana -- Social life and customs.   Indonesia -- Social life and customs. ISBN:  9780670066995 (hc.) 0670066990 (hc.) Description:  295 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "In the 1970s, Shelagh Plunkett, a teenage girl from Vancouver, travels with her middle-class family to Guyana and Indonesia, where her father, a civil engineer, has been posted to help with those countries' water systems. On the surface, she lives a protected life, attending girls' schools run by nuns and surrounded by household staff. But there is also a fearlessness and recklessness in the girl--a hotel tryst at fifteen, swimming with piranhas, and cavorting with monkeys. The secrecy and double life of this teenager in a foreign land is paralleled by the mysterious comings and goings of her beloved but distant father. Guyana is nationalizing Canada's bauxite mines, and Indonesians are slaughtering East Timorese a few miles away. Why is their phone tapped, why do they always have to have a suitcase packed, and why is her father working on a water project on a parched island? In The Water Here Is Never Blue, an adolescent comes of age and is indelibly marked by her years abroad. But it is the adult narrator who ultimately struggles with the truth of who her father was"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 918.81 P737w Adult books Checked out Jul 16, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 918.81 P737w Adult books Not Available   Add Copy to MyList

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