
Requests and dedications
Canadian fiction, Family stories, General fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Set in Toronto and its outlying areas, a makeshift family consists of a young woman, Tanis; her horse-dealer uncle, Walker; Tanis's mother, Joy; and Walker's girlfriend, Mimi, a singer. Tanis, self-sufficient, wise, and irreverent, is gripped in a difficult relationship… with her mother and by her uneasy love of Walker. Just as she is ready to break away, a tragic event changes everything. 2003.