E-book
Rabbit ears
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443416641
- ISBN: 1443416649
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins e-books, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from READ title page (Overdrive, viewed Mar. 31, 2014). |
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| Subject: | Sisters -- Fiction Problem youth -- Fiction Magicians -- Fiction Orphans -- Fiction Adopted children -- Fiction Adopted children Magicians Orphans Problem youth Sisters |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
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- HARPERCOLL
Kaya is adopted, multiracial, grieving the death of her fatherâand carrying a painful secret. Feeling ill at ease with her family and in her own skin, she runs away repeatedly, gradually disappearing into a life of addiction and sex work. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, escapes her own troubles with food and a rediscovered talent for magic tricks. Though both girls struggle through darkness and pain, they eventually find their way to a moment of illumination and healing.
This powerful YA novel is rooted in the tragic life of the authorâs sister, Sarah, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton and the subject of Maggie de Vriesâs Governor Generalâs Literary Awardânominated memoir for adults, Missing Sarah. Sarahâs tragic experiences inspired the character Kaya, as well as an adult sex worker she meets on the streets. Vancouverâs missing women form a chilling backdrop for the story.
