Author: ANDERSON-DARGATZ, GAIL
Title: Turtle Valley
Description: Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0676978851. A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.3 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches; 292 pages; "Kat has returned with her disabled husband and young son to her family’s homestead in Turtle Valley, in British Columbia’s Shuswap-Thompson area. Fire is sweeping through the valley in a ruthless progression toward the farm and they have come to help her frail parents pack up their belongings. Kat’s mother, Beth, (the now elderly protagonist of Anderson-Dargatz’s first novel, the award-winning The Cure for Death by Lightning) is weighed down by her ailing husband, Gus, and by generations of accumulated detritus. But there is something else weighing her down, a secret she has guarded all her life. Kat is determined to get to its source before fire eats up all that is left of the family’s memories.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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