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  title info:
    title: Astra
  name:
    name part: Bowers, Cedar
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: Trade paperback original edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 286 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "Raised on a remote BC commune by a neglectful father, Astra Brine eventually leaves for Calgary, where she struggles to find her way in the world, her life becoming a study of the thin line between dependence and love, need and desire. As her path intersects with others--often only briefly, but always intensely--she will encounter people who, by turns, want to rescue, control, become, change, and escape her, revealing difficult yet shining truths about who they are and what they yearn for. There is the childhood playmate who comes to fear Astra's unpredictable ways; the stranger who rescues her from homelessness and then has to wrestle with his own demons; the mother who hires Astra as a babysitter even as her own marriage goes off the rails; the man who takes a leap of faith and marries her. Even as Astra herself remains the elusive yet compelling axis around which these narratives turn, her story reminds us of the profound impact that an individual can have on those around her, and the power struggles at play in all our relationships, no matter how intimate. A beautifully constructed and revelatory novel, Astra explores what we're willing to give and receive from others, and how well we ever really know the people we love the most."--
  note: Cedar Bowers.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Young women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
  subject:
    topic: Young women
  classification: PR9199.4.B685256 A88 2021
  classification: 813/.6
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astra
    name:
      name part: Bowers, Cedar.
    origin info:
      publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2021
    identifier: (OCoLC)1206366788
  identifier: 9780771012891
  identifier: 0771012896
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 201113
    record change date: 20250318214943.3
    record identifier: in00004403883
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng