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Black dog summer : a novel

Sherry, Miranda (Author).

Summary: A mother watches from the afterlife as her teenage daughter recovers amidst the startling dysfunction of her extended family. Black Dog Summer begins with a farmstead massacre in the South African bush. 38-year-old Sally is but one of the victims. Her life brutally cut short, she narrates from her vantage point in the afterlife and watches as her sister, Adele, her brother-in-law and unrequited love Liam, her niece Bryony, and her teenage daughter, Gigi, begin to make sense of the tragedy.

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  • ISBN: 9781476779768
  • Physical Description: print
    246 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2015

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General Note:
[Hardcover]
Subject: Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Dead -- Fiction
Victims of violent crimes -- Fiction
South Africa -- Fiction
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Occult fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

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Summary: A mother watches from the afterlife as her teenage daughter recovers amidst the startling dysfunction of her extended family. Black Dog Summer begins with a farmstead massacre in the South African bush. 38-year-old Sally is but one of the victims. Her life brutally cut short, she narrates from her vantage point in the afterlife and watches as her sister, Adele, her brother-in-law and unrequited love Liam, her niece Bryony, and her teenage daughter, Gigi, begin to make sense of the tragedy.
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