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by Donna Morrissey
Kit Pitman lives with her unstable mother in a cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland. Her life is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her illegitimate birth. Morrissey depicts the way the lines between mother and daughter, although blurred, are deeply felt. "Kit's Law" marks the debut of a new talent.
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In this powerful debut novel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields, we find all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place, an intricate and suspenseful plot, and a feisty heroine whom we can’t help rooting for on every page” (Margot Livesey). Kit Pitman is fourteen and lives in a ramshackle cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where isolation is all she knows. The only visitors are fogbound fishermen and an occasional young man brought ashore to keep the bloodlines clean. But Kit’s isolation is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her family and her illegitimate birth. Her mother, Josie, is mentally retarded and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzie staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzie dies suddenly, Kit and her childlike mother are left vulnerable to life’s harsh realities and to unexpected dangers that repeatedly threaten to break them apart. A wrenching story ensues, as Morrissey depicts with exceptional grace the way the lines between mother and daughter in this unlikely relationship, although blurred, are deeply felt. KIT'S LAW is a novel of extraordinary, almost mythical power and marks the debut of an enormous new talent.
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THE WALLS INSIDE THE CHURCH IN Haire's Hollow were sparkling clean up to the point where the A-shaped ceiling began.
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- Title Kit's Law
- Author Donna Morrissey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-05-03
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618109272 / 0618109277
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.5 x 0.96 in (21.54 x 13.97 x 2.44 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Newfoundland
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00065465
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Booklist, 04/01/2001, Page 1452
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2001, Page 284
- Publishers Weekly, 04/09/2001, Page 49
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