The Nowhere Places
Debbie Rodgers
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Megan Moore
, Taya Young
, Barry Kazimer
, CANDACE NGUYEN
, Janet Miller
, cassandra schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Ariane Béland
, Marilyn Stanley
, Dot Mann
, Alanna Virtue
, Agnes Marshall
, jaynie jackson
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Kevin Smith
, Mary Therrien
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Lindsey Drake
, Brad MULLER
, Elle Kishia
, Jennifer Beyak
, Anita Janik-Jones
, Brittney Warren
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sandra Furlotte
, Stephen Pinder
, Carol Brown
, Ching Ching Wu
, Lesley Sturge
, Katie Macalister
, Louise Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Patricia Johnson
, Andrea Pole
, Holly Elisabeth
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Trisha Corkwell
, Carol Saponja
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Neha Faisal
, Lynn Mullen
, Sara Hawkins
, Noelle Walsh
, Emily Steiner
, Mark Gorman
, Allison Dube
, Sharon Forzley
, Cheryl Johnson
, Taylor MaGee
, Natasa Ilic
, Davina Liew
, Eva Esmann
, Hilary Jenkins
, Shannan Sword
, Kartik Gupta
, Karen Kendrick
, Roland Schigas
, Kym Marsh
, Ashlee Blais
, Denica StP
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Nicholas Graham
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Diane McPherson
, Anneka Chambers
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, joy mills
, Carrie Marcotte
, Sandra Storey
, Sara Conway
, Mary Woods
, jane luce
, Vanessa Seto
, Huguette Lemieux
, Meghan Barton
, VJ Hatton
, Donna Gamache
, M M English
, Michelle Arsenault
, Julie Kaniak
, Brian Yee
, Marla Schecter Howard
, C. Ray
, Thelma Ball
, Sara Erskine
, Robert Hykawy
, Paula Adam
, Sindi Nika
, Benita Hartwell
, Anne Range
, Andrea Gillespie
, Patricia McKeown
, Ellen Clarke
, Rodney Cross
, Judy Richardson
, Samantha Read
, diana kirkwood
, Jessica Gilbert
, Lisa Mallia
, Catherine Westerberg
, Kim Wiggins
, Heather Norris
, Hannah Law
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Anna Krentz
, Tanya Korigan
, toni velthuis
, Ken Gilmour
, Linda Leitch
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Paula Ritchie
, Sarah McComb
, Helene Fuhr
, Debra Fisher
, Claire Gear
, Cherryl Koylass
, Kristen Nikola
, Alex Henderson
, Rosa Cross
, Joseph Chirayil
, Stephanie Trotter
, Julie M.
, Elaine Baptie
, Kristen Bach
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Judith Pearson
, Barbara Leckie
, Christopher Evans
, Linda Ham
, Madelyn Brittain
, Morgan Stewart
, Sandra Lackie
, Faaria Samnani
, Russell Reitsema
, Joe Mitchell
, Casey Khuu
, MJ Malleck
, Elmira Olson
, Kim Carswell
, Augustine Mudzudza
, Jen Karpiuk
, Melissa Poremba
, Tanya Blake
, Chris Carvalho
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Sonia Navvuru
, Danielle Pigeau
, Kim Cappellina
, Bianca Jeannotte
, Marianne Ward
, Macy McCubbing
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Susan Jang
, Lynn Andrews
, Catherine Booker
, Joe Titone
, Taryn Hubbard
, Janet Meisner
, Laura Patterson
, Rachel Edmonds
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Randi Ann Doll
, Michelle Canfield
, Margaret McKay
, Debbie Youngman
, Alanna King
, Lori Campbell
, Jeff Eaves
, Emily Johansen
, Meaghan Krygier
, Lindsey Andronak
, Lori Bardell
, Tanis Anne
, Deana Bueley
, Alison Jacques
, Jenn George
, Lynn Bechtel
, Pat Johnston
, Charles Leblanc
, Jacqueline Chenier
, Janice Cournoyer
, P. Thompson
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An incisive, skilful debut historical novel tracing the lives of a middle-aged woman and a teenaged girl through one pivotal year (1979-80) in North End Halifax.
It's 1979, and June has raised her son, Gerald, into adulthood as an unwed mother. She is in middle life now, sandwiched between Gerald—who is developmentally disabled and still lives in the family Hydrostone rowhouse—and her aging mother, Margie. When Gerald goes missing, it throws the family into chaos, leaving June shaken and open to the advances of a long-ago ex who's back in Halifax and looking to reunite.
Teenaged Lulu, too, worries about Gerald's absence from the pharmacy where she works. Lulu is reckoning with life as a girl transitioning into womanhood in this buttoned-up, patriarchal city. Her parents' marriage is on the rocks, as is her relationship with her best friend now that they've started high school. Lulu will never be cool, will always be threatened by the rough boys who live in her neighbourhood, will always live in a body that feels unwieldy and undesirable.
The Nowhere Places puts the secret stories of girlhood and womanhood—sexual violence, accidental pregnancy, shame, ambition, and yearning—centre stage, as they occur in the wild insecurity and shifting sands of Lulu's teenage life, and the powerful, decisive growth of June's middle age.
Lulu and June, though divided by decades, are both learning who they are and who they belong to—and what they might be capable of in a world still deeply unfair to women. And both find their solid foundations in their patched-together families, and the safe joy of female friends.
