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MEADOWLARK
For upmarket women fiction readers of greats such as Crow Lake by Mary Lawson and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, MEADOWLARK, a novel, is an astounding debut by Wendi Stewart, who has been mentored by one of Canada's very best, Lisa Moore.
When her family's car goes through the ice on Rainy Lake one cold March day in 1962, six-yearold Rebecca Archer is the only person her father is able to pull from the sinking vehicle. But as Rebecca grows up in a farmhouse haunted by the absence of her mother and baby brother, raised by a man left nearly paralyzed with grief, she wonders if her father really did save her after all.
Eventually, though, Rebecca finds solace in the company of her friends: Chuck, the sensitive son of a violently abusive father; and Lissie, an aboriginal girl being raised alone by a perfectionist white mother. As these three young people protect and support one another, Rebecca discovers that by saving Chuck and Lissie, she may also save herself.
In her debut novel, Wendi Stewart tells the luminous, deeply imagined story of a young woman's hard-won triumph over heartbreaking personal tragedy.
WENDI STEWART writes a weekly newspaper column with The Fort Frances Times where she waxes poetic on life's conundrums and she writes for The Chronicle Herald. She has had several short stories published in numerous journals and magazines, including The Antigonish Review. Her work has appeared in collections alongside the works of Joseph Boyden and Anthony de Sa. Wendi has been closely mentored by Lisa Moore and is a recipient of literary grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Arts Nova Scotia. Meadowlark is her first book.
Eventually, though, Rebecca finds solace in the company of her friends: Chuck, the sensitive son of a violently abusive father; and Lissie, an aboriginal girl being raised alone by a perfectionist white mother. As these three young people protect and support one another, Rebecca discovers that by saving Chuck and Lissie, she may also save herself.
In her debut novel, Wendi Stewart tells the luminous, deeply imagined story of a young woman's hard-won triumph over heartbreaking personal tragedy.
WENDI STEWART writes a weekly newspaper column with The Fort Frances Times where she waxes poetic on life's conundrums and she writes for The Chronicle Herald. She has had several short stories published in numerous journals and magazines, including The Antigonish Review. Her work has appeared in collections alongside the works of Joseph Boyden and Anthony de Sa. Wendi has been closely mentored by Lisa Moore and is a recipient of literary grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Arts Nova Scotia. Meadowlark is her first book.
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