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Stillwater: A Novel

Autor Darcie Friesen Hossack
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2023 – vârsta ani

When Lizzy is forced to move to the Adventist commune of Stillwater, she is sure the end times have begun. She’s not wrong.

Sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped, caught between her passion for science and the teachings of her Seventh-day Adventist father and Mennonite mother. But she isn’t the only one with problems: her mother, Marie, is increasingly reliant on prescription medication to recover from a car accident that might – or might not – have been deliberately caused by her husband, Daniel.

In a bid to regain his social standing and self-esteem, Daniel moves the family to an Adventist commune in BC’s Okanagan Valley, where Lizzy meets another recent arrival with secrets of his own. He helps her establish a clandestine connection to the outside world that she hopes will help her curb her tongue and retain her sanity long enough to finish high school, but her plans change when her younger brother, Zach, is threatened. Lizzy and Zach flee to Marie’s childhood home with their reluctant mother in tow. When her father arrives to take his family back to Stillwater, old resentments collide with new, forcing everyone to face a day of judgement.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781990160202
ISBN-10: 1990160204
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 7 mm
Editura: Tidewater Press
Colecția Tidewater Press
Locul publicării:New Westminster, Canada

Cuprins

Contents

Prologue
Part One: Kelowna
Nuteena
Beet Roll
Haystack Cookies
Banana Sandwiches
Chow
Devilled Ham
Special K Roast
Sunny Day Pancakes
Part Two: Stillwater
Walnut Patties
Gluten Steaks
Vegemite
Clove Oil Toothpaste
Apricot Platz
Sprouted Wheat Bread
Green Goddess
Chickpea Meringue
Nut Bars
FriChik Buns
Haystacks
Part 3: Maple Creek
Fig Pops
Waffles with Milk Sauce
Cracklings
Nüdel Zupp
Rollkuchen
Baba Ghanouj
Schmaundt Fat
Varenyky
Zwieback
Drippings
Cream Cookies
Epilogue

Recenzii

When Lizzy is forced to move to the Adventist commune of Stillwater, she is sure the end times have begun. She’s not wrong.
As Covid-19 upends society, sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped between her passion for science and the conspiracy theories embraced by her Seventh-day Adventist father and Mennonite mother. But she isn’t the only one in crisis.
Her father, a nurse, is opposed to vaccines—the perfect excuse to relocate his injured, secretly drug-addicted wife and two children to a strict SDA commune in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.
Once at Stillwater, Lizzy struggles to curb her tongue and adapt to a rigid ideology without abandoning her education. But a new threat forces her to flee with her younger brother and reluctant mother to a place where old resentments and buried history will provoke a day of judgement for the whole family.

". . . a delicious story of simmering cultural tensions that boil over during the pandemic. In turns irreverent, funny, deeply moving and heart-wrenching . . . " GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist
". . . a compelling exploration of family, liberation . . . and food." ANDREW UNGER, author of Once Removed and The Unger Review
“Darcie Friesen Hossack’s Lizzy grabbed hold of my heart right from chapter one. A fierce hero at war with her upbringing, with her father’s ideology, and with the society she does not yet have the power to escape, Lizzy inspires me . . . Stillwater reminds me that even with damaged wings, we can learn to fly. We must. Go, Lizzy!” ANGIE ABDOU, author of In Case I Go and This One Wild Life
“Seventh-day Adventists are rarely represented in literary fiction. And when the Adventist church does get a mention in serious literature, the depiction is often unflattering. Darcie Friesen Hossack’s recent novel Stillwater offers a damning portrait of an Adventist community that is also thoughtful, nuanced, and insightful.. . . like all good fiction, Stillwater deals not in abstractions but in specifics. The detailed evocation of the story’s Adventist and Mennonite communities—right down to the recipes—is what makes this novel powerful and memorable.” TRUDY J. MORGAN-COLE, Spectrum magazine