A debut novel with a vivid Newfoundland setting, which has echoes of E. Annie Proulx.
There are no telephones, cars or roads and the only visitors are fog-bound fishermen. Kit, 14, lives with her grandmother Lizzie caring for her mother Josie, mentally disabled, inarticulate, and childlike. Kit's father is unknown - one of the numerous men in the town who have sexually used and abused Josie. When Lizzie dies suddenly, the villagers want to put Josie in an institution and send Kit to an orphanage.
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