On the shores of darkness, there is light : a novel /

On the shores of darkness, there is light : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Strube, Cordelia, 1960- author.
Imprint:	Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	365 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Girls -- Fiction. Child artists -- Fiction. Brothers and sisters -- Fiction. Brothers and sisters. Child artists. Girls. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10923133

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ISBN:	9781770412965 1770412964 9781770908666 9781770908673
Notes:	Issued also in electronic formats.
Summary:	"Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown-up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Park, hole up in a cabin like Tom Thomson and paint trees; and so, to fund her escape, she runs errands for the seniors who inhabit the Shangrila, the decrepit apartment building that houses her fractured family. Determined, resourceful, and a little reckless, Harriet tries to navigate the clueless adults around her, dumpster dives for the flotsam and jetsam that fuels her art, and attempts to fathom her complicated feelings for Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. On the other hand, Irwin's love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. She's his compass. But Irwin himself must untangle the web of the human heart"--Back cover.
Other form:	Strube, Cordelia, 1960-, author. On the shores of darkness, there is light.

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Summary:	Strube is at the top of her form in this subversive story of love and redemption. Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed media paintings are a wonder to her brother, Irwin, but a horror to the clueless grown-ups around her. Harriet plans to run away to a cabin to paint, and runs errands for pensioners to fund her escape. She also hopes to fathom her complicated feelings for Irwin, who suffers from hydrocephalus. But Irwin's love for Harriet is not conflicted at all. She's his compass. When fate intervenes, it's Irwin who must untangle the web of the human heart.
Physical Description:	365 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781770412965 1770412964 9781770908666 9781770908673