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Kit's Law
Kit's Law: A Novel | Donna Morrissey
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In this powerful debut novel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields, we find “all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place, an intricate and suspenseful plot, and a feisty heroine whom we can’t help rooting for on every page” (Margot Livesey). Kit Pitman is fourteen and lives in a ramshackle cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where isolation is all she knows. The only visitors are fogbound fishermen and an occasional young man brought ashore to keep the bloodlines clean. But Kit’s isolation is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her family and her illegitimate birth. Her mother, Josie, is mentally retarded and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzie staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzie dies suddenly, Kit and her childlike mother are left vulnerable to life’s harsh realities and to unexpected dangers that repeatedly threaten to break them apart. A wrenching story ensues, as Morrissey depicts with exceptional grace the way the lines between mother and daughter in this unlikely relationship, although blurred, are deeply felt. KIT'S LAW is a novel of extraordinary, almost mythical power and marks the debut of an enormous new talent.
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Kit's Law: A Novel | Donna Morrissey
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I don't even know why this book was on my shelf, but I'm sure glad it was. After the death of her grandmother, 14yr old Kit has to fend for herself and her disabled mother, against a town that doesn't want either of them. It is set in 1950s Newfoundland, which I assume is why I bought this book in the first place. #CanadianAuthor #AtoZ

Prairiegirl_reading This has been on my shelves for YEARS!! 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 5y
Nute Stacking! 4y
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Kit's Law: A Novel | Donna Morrissey
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This was a wonderful book. It had extremely strong character develop and even better setting in place. I felt like I was actually in Newfoundland. The way the author described places and people, I felt like I was there with them and knew them all personally. I could hear the Newfoundland lilting drawl as they spoke to me. The bittersweet ending was realistic, believable. This book will stay with me awhile.