The heaviness of things that float /

Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immed...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Manuel, Jennifer (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, [2016]
Subjects:	Nurses > Fiction. Loneliness > Fiction. Retirement > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Vancouver Island (B.C.) > Fiction.