One of Canada's most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.
In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod—a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl's growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact.
In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Manawaka: Hagar Shipley in
The Stone Angel
, Rachel Cameron in
A Jest of God
, Stacey MacAindra in
The Fire-Dwellers
, and Morag Gunn in
The Diviners
.