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"This novel explores the stories of three generations of lost summers: the girl in the blue bathing suit; the impenetrable and doomed camp counselor with the shifting features; the wife who comes alive to the rhythms of a cottage summer, wild blueberries, and lake gossip, though who remains blind to the secret that will change her life irrevocably. But the beating heart of this novel lies in the story of a divorced father and a young son separated by the silence of estrangement, and how during one extraordinary night on an ill-fated canoe trip the silence is broken. As the story unfolds and…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2000Vintage Canada · 266 pages · 9780676972801
- Other · English · 2000Abacus · 266 pages · 9780349110073
- Other · English · 1999Alfred A. Knopf Canada · 266 pages · 9780676971903
- Other · English · 1999Crown Publishers · 266 pages · 9780517702628
New York Times reviewedFiction, generalFathers and sons, fictionFathers and sonsFiction