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Welcome to Poplar Grove, a farming community with three generations of Dutch-Canadians. Life in the New World has not become less complicated as the decades have passed, and now, a set of dying customs is about to collide with the ways of a new generation. The balance is shifting between people comfortable holding hymnals and cleaning cows'' teats and those who are uneasy with traditional expectations. A young woman grapples with contradiction between the pious appearance of her best friend''s family and the bits of reality she hears in her friend''s confidences; a woman mourns the loss of her disabled son, but also wishes to end the ritual state of mourning; a girl finds herself stranded on the battlefield between her new-age brother and her Old World parents. These people are bound by time-worn expectations and the demands of an agricultural life. With humour and insight, author Patricia Westerhof examines a place where opposing ideologies mingle, and a community struggles to redefine who and what they are.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Catch Me When I Fall
• Author: Patricia Westerhof
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781897142516
• ISBN: 9781897142516
• ID: 06415625
• Publisher: Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd
• Weight: 220 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 217 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2011

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