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It is the hot prairie summer of her twelfth year and Elsie is at a crossroads. Her beloved mother who is mentally ill has been hospitalized, and Elsie thinks that the breakdown is all her fault. Mental illness is simply not discussed in Elsie's close-knit Mennonite community and she is rudderless. Nothing Elsie does seems to go right: there's no pleasing her bossy older sister; she forgets to feed the cat, so her father gives it away; she's supposed to watch out for her younger sister, but she lets her come home alone from the swimming pool (despite the lurking menace of a weird stranger around town); and she bargains with God to make her mother well again -- to no evident avail. Elsie's conversations with God, her struggle to overcome guilt, and her honest desire to prove herself are laced with a wicked wit and clarity of vision. Almost Eden is a beautiful portrait of a town, a family, and a young woman willing to challenge the things that don't make sense to her, and to fix the things that don't seem right.

Book details

• Full title: Almost Eden
• Author: Anita Horrocks
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9780887767425
• ISBN: 0887767427
• ID: 11569680
• Publisher: TUNDRA BOOKS INC
• Weight: 308 g
• Dimensions: 194 × 131 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: April 2006

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