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Wittenbergs, The

By (author): Sarah Klassen

Things are not well with the Wittenbergs. Alice has given birth to her second child with a genetic disorder. Millicent has withdrawn into a depression. Joseph has to choose between being principal of George Sutton Collegiate and the new English teacher. And Mia finds herself at the mercy of an unsympathetic teacher while the attractive athletic neighbour ignores her. Only the oldest Wittenberg, the matriarch who holds the key to the family’s Mennonite past, can lead the Wittenbergs along the Dnieper River and toward a better tomorrow.

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Sarah Klassen

Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Manitoba’s Interlake. Now retired, she previously enjoyed a career teaching high school English. An accomplished traveller, poet, and fiction writer, she has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the High Plains Award for Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, and Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History. The Tree Of LifeI is her sixth poetry collection.


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What a marvel of a character Sarah Klassen has created in Mia Wittenberg, an open-hearted teenager who holds a troubled family’s past and present in her steady gaze.

–Joan Thomas, author of Curiosity


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Things are not well with the Wittenbergs. Alice has given birth to her second child with a genetic disorder. Millicent has withdrawn into a depression. Joseph has to choose between being principal of George Sutton Collegiate and the new English teacher. And Mia finds herself at the mercy of an unsympathetic teacher while the attractive athletic neighbour ignores her. Only the oldest Wittenberg, the matriarch who holds the key to the family’s Mennonite past, can lead the Wittenbergs along the Dnieper River and toward a better tomorrow.

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Dimensions:

432 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 1.08in
1lb

Published:

September 30, 2013

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Turnstone Press

ISBN:

9780888014467

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

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Language:

eng

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