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Our Daily Bread
Our Daily Bread | Lauren B. Davis
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A novel about what happens when we view our neighbours as The Other and the transformative power of unlikely friendships, Our Daily Bread is inspired by the true story of the Goler Clan of Nova Scotia. The Erskine Clan, long shunned by the people of Gideon, live in secrecy and isolation on North Mountain. For generations, the clans children have suffered unspeakable acts of abuse, incest and psychological torture. The intolerant, self-righteous Gideonites decline to intervene, believing their neighbours to be beyond salvation. Yet in both groups, nearly everyone has secrets, and nothing is as it seems. Twenty-one-year-old Albert Erskine dreams of a better life and explains to his new friend, Bobby Evans, a teenager from town, the meaning of the mans code: You keep your secrets to yourself and you keep your weaknesses a secret and your hurts a secret and your dreams you bury double deep. Bobbys eight-year-old sister, Ivy, suffers from incessant bullying by her classmates. Her father, Tom Evans, a local bread delivery man, struggles to keep his troubledmarriage together. As rumours and innuendo about the Evans family spread, Ivy seeks refuge in the company of Dorothy Carlisle, an independent-minded widow who runs a local antiques store. When Albert ventures down from the mountain, he sets in motion a chain of events that changes everything.
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Our Daily Bread | Lauren B. Davis
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This book has been sitting sadly on the shelf for a while. Best of 2011 🤦‍♀️

A member of a reclusive family who lives in the mountains starts up a friendship with a teenager from town. Meanwhile the teenagers little sister starts up a friendship with the lady who owns the antique shop. I don‘t know where this is going but trigger warnings for child sexual abuse early on.

This was inspired by a real family from Nova Scotia (beware googling)

CoverToCoverGirl I thought it was well written - a disturbing but good read.. the true story version has been on my shelf for awhile just can‘t bring myself to read it yet (edited) 5y
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