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02478aam a22003138i 4500 001 9EF5ED92122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 008 200612s2022 onc 000 f eng 020 $a 1529113431 020 $a 9781529113433 020 $a 0735281297 020 $a 9780735281295 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1158015816 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d NLC $d YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d SILO 042 $a lac 055 0 $a PS8573.A9425 $b T69 2022 100 1 $a Lawson, Mary, $d 1946- $e author. 245 12 $a A town called Solace / $c Mary Lawson. 260 $a Toronto : $b Vintage Canada, $c 2022. 263 $a 202204 300 $a 292 pages ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Previously published: Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2021. 520 $a "As Solace opens, we meet a Northern Ontario family in crisis: their rebellious teenage daughter, Rose, has disappeared. Weeks have passed with no word, but still Rose's little sister, Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping that Rose will come back. Feisty and fierce, Clara is not only missing Rose; she is also missing her elderly friend and next-door neighbour, Mrs. Orchard, a retired schoolteacher who is away in hospital. While standing at the window, Clara keeps an eye out for Rose and an eye on Mrs. Orchard's house. Then, one afternoon, a strange young man in a strange car pulls into Mrs. Orchard's driveway and proceeds to move into the house as if he owns the place. Which it turns out he does: Mrs. Orchard has died and left it to him. Soon we discover that Clara's beloved Mrs. Orchard has a complicated and tragic past, and the real mystery at the heart of this novel is what happened between her and Liam, the man in the car. Solace is told in three distinct, compelling voices--Clara's, Mrs. Orchard's, and Liam's--cutting back and forth to carefully uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones we're born into and the ones we choose, and steadily building towards an assured, heart-wrenching and (despite its losses) uplifting ending. A beautifully written, masterful, suspenseful and deeply humane novel by one of our great storytellers."-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Ontario, Northern $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323012641.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220802014629.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9EF5ED92122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search