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ISBN 979-1-894838-31-1 - 160 pp - 6 x 9 - pb - $19.95
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GROWING UP WITH JULIE
By Gerry Steele
Growing Up With Julie is the story of Gerry
Steele’s childhood with a French-speaking mother in an English-speaking
community. Set in Miscouche, near Summerside, Prince Edward Island,
in the Depression and Second World War years of the 20th century,
the story is a gritty snapshot of life in a Catholic family burdened
by extreme poverty, alcohol, illness, and cultural tensions between
Acadians and Scots.
At the head of the family is Steele’s grandmother,
a woman unwavering in her beliefs – regardless of their merit, validity
or tendency to offend. But the heroine of the story is Steele’s
mother, a quiet woman resigned to her own isolation and exclusion,
but determined to help her children escape.
Gifted with a memory for detail, Steele has written
a candid and sometimes shocking memoir that is rich in integrity
and precision – a passionate but unsentimental story that moves
seamlessly between despair and humour, and finally toward forgiveness
and hope.
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