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A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada’s best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah. Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness... read more
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- Dorrie: Add a description of this character.
- Erastus
- John James
- Ruth
- Ursula
- Bill Drown
- Mama
- Helen Burr
- Mother Hammer
- Philomena
- Cruikshank Crow
- Josephine
- Papa
- Brother Joseph
- Mr. Humphrey
- Lai
- Baby Joe
- Younger Brother
- Henry
- Stanley
- Lyman
- Josepha
- Mrs. Stopes
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- Alissa York (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Canada
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0312386729
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Random House Canada
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0312386729
Page Count: 352
Awards edit
- Giller Prize (Finalist, 2007, Shortlist)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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