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    Some People's Children

    Some People's Children

    $22.95

    ISBN: 9781550818123

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    Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed. Weaving through a maze of gossip, community, and the complications of family, Some People’s Children is a revealing and liberating novel about the way others look at us and the power of self-discovery.

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    Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed. Weaving through a maze of gossip, community, and the complications of family, Some People’s Children is a revealing and liberating novel about the way others look at us and the power of self-discovery.

    BRIDGET CANNING was raised on a sheep farm in Highlands, NL. Her first novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, was shortlisted for the BMO Winterset Award, The Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Fiction), and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction. She lives in St. John’s.

    Editor's Pick: 2021, 49th Shelf
    Finalist: 2021 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
    Bronze Medal: 2020 The Miramachi Reader's 'The Very Best!' Book Award
    Finalist: 2020 BMO Winterset Award

    ISBN:  9781550818123 , 9781550818130

    Item Publish Date: 2020 / 04 / 17

    Measurements: 8.5 in X 5.5 in X .70 in

    Weight: 0.4 kg

    Page Count: 256

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