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The heaviness of things that float

Manuel, Jennifer (author.).

Summary: Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing.

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  • ISBN: 1771620870 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9781771620871 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: 292 pages ; 23 cm.
    regular print
    print
  • Publisher: Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, 2016.

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Awards Note:
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prize), 2017
Subject: Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Fiction
Older women -- Fiction
Nurses -- Fiction
Nootka  -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
Loneliness -- Fiction
Indigenous Peoples -- British Columbia -- Fiction
Indigenous reservations -- British Columbia -- Fiction

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  • 32 of 36 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 36 total copies.
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Creston Public Library FIC MAN (Text)
Acquisition Type: New
35140100003600 Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2024-05-02

Summary: Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing.
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