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Plunkett, Shelagh.
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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.
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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.
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The water here is never blue : intrigue and lies from an uncommon childhood / Shelagh Plunkett.
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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.
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Memoirs.
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