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    The Clock of Heaven
    The Clock of Heaven
    The Clock of Heaven
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    The Clock of Heaven

    By Dian Day

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    Esa Withrod is a young woman struggling over recent events in her personal life—a failed first relationship and resulting pregnancy—as well as the legacy of her desolate upbringing. Eccentric and enigmatic, Esa’s childhood has prepared her to deal with the world with endurance and resilience, but not with joy. She remains “mystified by kindness” and the friendship offered to her by her employer, Merle, a cartographer, and his partner, Daniel. The only bright spot in Esa’s childhood was the three months she spent in a house by the sea with her grandmother in the Maritimes when she was seven years old. Searching for that safe haven she knew as a child, Esa returns to her grandmother’s house to find that it is not possible to go back. Through a spring and summer of traumatic events in what has been her family’s homestead, she discovers the love of family, friendship, and the best of what people in a small community have to offer each other in times of difficulty.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInanna Poetry and Fiction Series
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9781771330312
    The Clock of Heaven
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    Dian Day

    Dian Day is the author of the award-winning novel The Clock of Heaven. She is a stacker of wood, baker of bread, writer of novels, researcher of lives past and present, preserver of jam, doctoral candidate, cobbler of houses, blogger of blogs, walker of dogs (sometimes cats), partner, mother, grandmother, walker of children (sometimes adults), speaker, listener, Nova Scotia lover, believer in naiads and dryads, ocean enthusiast, beachcomber extraordinaire, regular depositor to the bank of beach glass.

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