- American literature, Fiction, coming of age novel, Young Adult Fiction
Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to the assembled crowd solidifies your status as an outcast.
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- Author
- Riel Nason
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin, Goose Lane Editions
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781743314609
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“The beginning I remember is this: my brother Percy on the old Hawkshaw Bridge. It is August, sunny and warm, and he's in a white T-shirt and jeans, with his glasses tied tight about his head with a shoelace. He is walking, carrying a bottle in one hand, and his lips silently moving. It is afternoon. Percy is nine years, two months, three and a half days old. Believe me, that's what he's say if you asked him.”
Riel Nason is a Canadian writer living in New Brunswick. She writes for both adults and children. Her debut novel The Town That Drowned won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Canada and Europe and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. More recently, she is the author of the middle-grade novel Waiting Under Water and the bestselling picture book The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt. She is also a certified Highland dance teacher, and she loves attending Highland Games in North America and Scotland along with her daughter, who is a competitive Highland dancer.
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