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 From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive nature of art. Their rivalry sets the stage for all that follows in a narrative spanning over thirty years, beginning in Saskatchewan and moving, in the decades following the war, to Ottawa and New York City. Disarming, vividly told, unforgettable, this is a story about the mistakes we make that never go away, about how the things we want to keep vanish and the things we want to lose return to haunt us. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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loved the narrator's voice, the descriptions. would highly recommend. evoked such beautiful sense of place and time.

Loved it.

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Beautifully written, narration very good. However, I found the characters unlikable, I waited for redemption but found it overall dissatisfying. Just fell flat for me.
But Elizabeth Hay's writing is beautiful, I kept listening for that reason.

Beautifully written

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