Rush Home Road
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0676974503
ISBN 13
9780676974508
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
2002
Publisher
Subject
Women, Black -- Ontario -- Fiction. Black, Canadians -- Ontario -- Fiction. Noires -- Ontario -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Abstract
"When five-year-old Sharla Cody is abandoned on Addy's trailer-park doorstep, the old woman doesn't know if she is up to the task of mothering the willful, curious child. But she takes the little girl into her home, and Sharla opens a door to Addy's past."--Jacket.
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When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of them expected-and Sharla begins to undergo a transformation under Addy's patient and loving care. But much to Addy's surprise and dismay, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own tumultuous childhood. As she reminisces about her days growing up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid 1800s, she remembers her family and her first love and confronts the painful experience that drove her away from home, never to return.
Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.
Synopsis
Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life -- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond.
To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. She reminisces about her family, her first love, and the painful experience that drove her away from home. Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever.
Synopsis
This beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of "The Girls" tells the story of two unlikely people--five-year-old Sharla and 70-year-old Addy--who are thrown together and end up transforming each other's lives forever.
About the Author
Lori Lansens has written several films and is the author of the bestselling novel The Girls. She lives in California with her family.
When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of them expected-and Sharla begins to undergo a transformation under Addy's patient and loving care. But much to Addy's surprise and dismay, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own tumultuous childhood. As she reminisces about her days growing up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid 1800s, she remembers her family and her first love and confronts the painful experience that drove her away from home, never to return.
Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.
Synopsis
Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life -- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond.
To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. She reminisces about her family, her first love, and the painful experience that drove her away from home. Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever.
Synopsis
This beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of "The Girls" tells the story of two unlikely people--five-year-old Sharla and 70-year-old Addy--who are thrown together and end up transforming each other's lives forever.
About the Author
Lori Lansens has written several films and is the author of the bestselling novel The Girls. She lives in California with her family.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Fiction
Historical fiction
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lori Lansens
ISBN: 0676974503 9780676974508
OCLC Number: 48242482
Description: 547 p. ; 23 cm.
Responsibility: Lori Lansens.
Historical fiction
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lori Lansens
ISBN: 0676974503 9780676974508
OCLC Number: 48242482
Description: 547 p. ; 23 cm.
Responsibility: Lori Lansens.
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