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Bad Land
Bad Land | Corinna Chong
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LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE The slow-burning, deeply felt story of a social outcast reckoning with the wounds of her past Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her cherished pet bunny. But after seven years of silence, Regina's brother, Ricky, shows up unannounced on her doorstep, along with his daughter, Jez—a peculiar six-year-old with an unnerving vicious streak—upending Regina's quiet life. It's clear to Regina that something terrible has happened, though the truth won't come to the surface easily. After all, Regina and Ricky lived a childhood fraught with secrets buried as deep as the fossils in the desolate landscape around them. But this secret is one that cannot stay buried for long, and its exposure sets off a calamitous journey through plains and mountains that forces Regina to confront the brutality of family love and to question how far she is willing to go to preserve it. Rife with gothic tension and carried by fervent compassion, Bad Land is a story about the toxic nature of guilt, the fragility of memory, and the ways we shape our own versions of the truth in order to survive. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This book is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
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Suet624
Bad Land | Corinna Chong
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I‘m mad at myself for grabbing this book from the library when I have so many wonderful books in my house to read. It‘s a story of a woman who has lived alone for years, lives with childhood trauma, & her niece who has issues. The woman ends up taking the niece without permission to find her mother who disappeared years ago. I think there may have been layers to this story that I wasn‘t in the mood to explore. I was happy to be done with it.

sarahbarnes I do it all the time. 3w
AmyG 😬 3w
BarbaraBB You made me laugh out loud. I so know that feeling! 3w
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Hooked_on_books That‘s a bummer. I do find the cover compelling, so I can see why it may have seduced you. 3w
Reggie lol ohhhh Sue, I buy a book and wonder why when I have the library books in the car and go inside my home where the other library books are next to the other books I‘ve bought that I have not read. Ughhhhhhhhh I know 3w
Suet624 @BarbaraBB I‘m still mad about it. 🫤😊 2w
Suet624 @sarahbarnes I‘m so happy my only obsession is books and going to the library. But I really want to read my own books for a while. 2w
Suet624 @Reggie exactly!!! 2w
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