Algoma

by Dani Couture

Overview

A year after watching Leo go through thin ice, twelve-year- old Ferd is obsessed with the idea that he can persuade his dead brother to come home through a campaign of letters. Plaintive notes appear around the house—folded squares of paper in the rain reservoir, kitchen sink, and washing machine. Ferd’s mother, Algoma, is also unravelling; attempting to hide her son’s letters, reconnect with her increasingly distant husband, and rebuild her life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926743189
Publisher:	Invisible Publishing
Publication date:	10/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	546 KB
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

Dani Couture is the author of two collections of poetry: Good Meat (Pedlar Press) and Sweet (Pedlar Press). Sweet was nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the ReLit Award. Couture also received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers’ Trust’s Dayne Ogilvie Grant in 2011. She resides in Toronto.

Read an Excerpt

It was Algoma, the youngest of all of them. Someone who was closer to being a family mascot than a sister. She also carried the notable distinction of being the only non-twin of her siblings. “My only mistake,” Ann often said when referring to her youngest. She’d said she was joking, but everyone knew otherwise, especially Algoma. Like the Dionne Quints in Ontario, Ann had hoped to achieve reproductive fame, but it never came. She blamed it on two factors: that one set of siblings was not identical and that Algoma had come out alone. “Wanted the womb all for yourself, didn’t you,” she’d said when her newborn daughter was brought to her for the first time.

Editorial Reviews

"To read Dani Couture's Algoma is to be reminded of theaching beauty of loss, the thin, pale terror of hope, and thestrength and sacrifice required just for living, day by day.Haunting and fundamentally human, Algoma is a gift." - Robert J. Wiersema, author of Bedtime Story

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