After Alice

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781927063477

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>After&#10;retiring from the heady world of academia, Sidonie von T&#228;ler has returned to&#10;the small Okanagan Valley town she escaped in her youth for the lights of the&#10;big city. The family orchard has since gone to seed, and ever decades later&#10;Sidonie still finds herself living in the shadow of her deceased older sister&#10;Alice.</p><p>As she gets down to work sifting through the detritus&#10;of her family&#8217;s legacy, Sidonie is haunted by memories of trauma and triumph in&#10;equal measure, and must reconcile past and present while reconnecting with the&#10;family members she has left.</p><p>Karen Hofmann&#8217;s debut novel&#10;blends a poetic sensibility with issues of land stewardship, social&#10;stratification and colonialism, painting the geological and historical&#10;landscape of the Okanagan in vivid and varied colours.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>After&#10;retiring from the heady world of academia, Sidonie von T&#228;ler has returned to&#10;the small Okanagan Valley town she escaped in her youth for the lights of the&#10;big city. The family orchard has since gone to seed, and ever decades later&#10;Sidonie still finds herself living in the shadow of her deceased older sister&#10;Alice.</p><p>As she gets down to work sifting through the detritus of&#10;her family&#8217;s legacy, Sidonie is haunted by memories of trauma and triumph in&#10;equal measure, and must reconcile past and present while reconnecting with the&#10;family members she has left.</p><p>Karen Hofmann&#8217;s debut novel&#10;blends a poetic sensibility with issues of land stewardship, social&#10;stratification and colonialism, painting the geological and historical&#10;landscape of the Okanagan in vivid and varied colours.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;