Governor General's Award-winning Author Teresa Toten's Story About One Girl's Transformative Eight-day Road-trip To Retrieve Her Mother's Body. How Do You Face A Heartbreaking Past? One Day At A Time. Or As Aggie Says, One Crisis At A Time. In Teresa Toten's Compelling New Novel Eight Days, Samantha Finds Out That The Mother She Thought Had Died Years Ago Has Actually Just Passed Away. Added To This Charged Secret Is Her Recovering Alcoholic Grandfather's Strange Behaviour And Sudden Insistence That He Take Sami Back To Chicago To Retrieve Her Mother's Body. Luckily, Sami's Beloved Neighbour And Surrogate Mother Figure, Aggie, Insists On Coming On The Road Trip, Bringing Along Her Quirky Sense Of Humour And Fantastic Wig Collection. The Eight-day Journey Takes Us From Toronto To Chicago And Back Again, As Sami, An American Living With Her Grandfather In A Muslim-dominated Apartment Complex In Toronto, Struggles To Find Out Who She Is And Where She Belongs. Infused With Warmth And Love, Even As Family Struggles And Secrets Are Torn Open, Eight Days Is Ultimately About Forgiveness And Strength In Community. It Is Truly A Novel For Our Times.
Categories:
- Children's Books
- Growing Up & Facts of Life
- Health
- Drugs & Substance Abuse
- Health
- Growing Up & Facts of Life
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Author : Toten, Teresa
Language : English
Published :2022-01-04
Number Of Pages : 312
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1443190020
ISBN-13 : 9781443190022
Item weight : 0.66 lb
Dimensions : 0.98 in x 5.12 in x 8.39 in
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