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Swallow
By Theanna Bischoff
You wake up, and your sister is dead.
With an absent father and their mother constantly ill, sisters Darcy and Carly Nolan were forced to rely on each other growing up. While unpredictable Carly bounced around, her life's direction uncertain, Darcy fell in love, went to University, ... Read more
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You wake up, and your sister is dead.
With an absent father and their mother constantly ill, sisters Darcy and Carly Nolan were forced to rely on each other growing up. While unpredictable Carly bounced around, her life's direction uncertain, Darcy fell in love, went to University, and moved to another province. When nineteen-year-old Carly unexpectedly kills herself, Darcy is left to carry the burden of their childhood memories forward alone. The pain of these memories overwhelms Darcy as she struggles to unravel her own feelings of guilt, and to make sense of her sister's death--as an act of destruction, of misery, but also of love.
Theanna Bischoff
Theanna Bischoff is a novelist and creative writing instructor in Calgary, Alberta. Her first novel, Cleavage, was shortlisted for both the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada/the Caribbean), and the 2009 Re-Lit Awards. Theanna holds a Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Calgary (2006) and a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology (2007). She is also the co-author of a commentary entitled "Social Cognition in the Literary Arts."
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- Dimensions 288 pages, 6 x 9 x 1 in
- Published September 1, 2012
- Publisher NeWest Press
- Category Fiction
- Keywords Contemporary Women , Literary , Fiction: General & Literary
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