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Kit's Law
by Morrissey, Donna
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670886017
- ISBN 13
- 9780670886012
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Synopsis
In this powerful debut novel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields, we find all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place, an intricate and suspenseful plot, and a feisty heroine whom we can’t help rooting for on every page” (Margot Livesey). Kit Pitman is fourteen and lives in a ramshackle cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where isolation is all she knows. The only visitors are fogbound fishermen and an occasional young man brought ashore to keep the bloodlines clean. But Kit’s isolation is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her family and her illegitimate birth. Her mother, Josie, is mentally retarded and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzie staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzie dies suddenly, Kit and her childlike mother are left vulnerable to life’s harsh realities and to unexpected dangers that repeatedly threaten to break them apart. A wrenching story ensues, as Morrissey depicts with exceptional grace the way the lines between mother and daughter in this unlikely relationship, although blurred, are deeply felt. KIT'S LAW is a novel of extraordinary, almost mythical power and marks the debut of an enormous new talent.
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- Bookseller
- A Good Read
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76209
- Title
- Kit's Law
- Author
- Morrissey, Donna
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670886017
- ISBN 13
- 9780670886012
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0670886017
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