![]() ![]() Living alone with her hardscrabble mother Alice compounds the problem-though their unique relationship to the natural world ties them together, Alice keeps an awful secret from her daughter, one that threatens to ignite the tension growing between them.Emily Strelow's mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an American mosaic alive with birdsong and gunsmoke, held together by a silver box of eggshells-a long-ago gift from a mother to her daughter. And in the present day, precocious fifteen year-old Lily struggles, despite her willfulness, to find a place for herself amongst the small town attitudes of Burning Hills, Oregon. In 1941, nomad Victor scours the Sierras searching for refuge from a home to which he never belonged. ![]() Summary Cast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper’s assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world unkind to young women. ![]() ![]() Publisher: Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book Sorry, the publisher does not allow users to read this book from the country from which you are connecting. ![]()
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