The House Filler
Jude Castillo
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Marilyn Stanley
, Sandra Furlotte
, Agnes Marshall
, Margo Beredjiklian
, diana kirkwood
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Sarah Schwartz
, Stephen Pinder
, Deb Philippon
, Claire Gear
, finn mulryan
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Patricia Johnson
, Linda Leitch
, Joshua Lewis
, Noelle Walsh
, Joe Mitchell
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Barry Kazimer
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Tatiana Robinson
, Marjorie Roy
, Claudie Léveillé
, zelda dwyer
, Andrea Pole
, Natasa Ilic
, Mary Ellen Havlik
, Rose Ghaedi
, Chris Lantz
, Andrea Gillespie
, Mary Therrien
, Chantal Gingras
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Heather Belliveau
, Charles Leblanc
, Kathleen Hutchison
, Christine Lion
, Paula Ritchie
, Rosanna Crupi
, Benita Hartwell
, jane luce
, Jane Graham
, Huguette Lemieux
, Darlene Foster
, Margaret McKay
, Janice Cournoyer
, Nancy Daoust
, Pat Johnston
, BJ Underwood
, Denise Duvall
, Lynn Andrews
, Patricia McKeown
, Randi Ann Doll
, Kim Cappellina
, Sindi Nika
, Lisa Mallia
, Jessica Gilbert
, Ken Gilmour
, Kym Marsh
, Karen Nordrum
, Mary Campbell
, Melissa Poremba
, Cindy Bodini
, Lynn Bechtel
, Alanna King
, Sara Conway
, Susan Jang
, Payton Phillips
, Barbara Leckie
, Nicole Bawden
, Ellen Clarke
, Chris Carvalho
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Robert Hykawy
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Deana Bueley
, Janet Miller
, Tyra Antle
, Amie Gaudet
, Devon Millard
, Beth Dekoker
, Rhona Brinkman
, Rachel Edmonds
, Laurie Burns
, Prabh Toor
, Judith Pearson
, Debra Fisher
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Maureen Brownlee
, Deanna Radford
, Janet Meisner
, Sharon Bird
, Jennifer Beyak
, Lesley Cameron
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A family saga set in China during the most tumultuous time of the twentieth century including the Japanese invasion, the civil war, and the Communist takeover.
The House Filler is told through the experiences of Golden Phoenix, a woman who faces war, poverty, and political oppression as she fights for survival, freedom and happiness. After the untimely death of her husband, Golden Phoenix is determined to keep her family together. However, poverty forces her to make the heart-wrenching decision to give her teenage twins to the Red Army. During the upheaval of the Japanese invasion of her hometown, she is separated from her two young girls, and her remaining son leaves to fight with the Nationalist army. Golden Phoenix, along with her adopted son, remains to endure the horror and hardship of war. When the civil war ends with the Communists in power in 1949, one of her twins, who had joined the Communist Party, is wrongly accused of being a traitor and is sentenced to death. Golden Phoenix and her family must find a way to save her son's life.
The House Filler is a moving and powerful portrayal of one family's struggle to survive in the face of an historical upheaval and political oppression.
