Meadowlark

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2015

ISBN-13: 9781926455396

<p>When her family’s car goes through the ice on Rainy Lake one cold March day in 1962, six-year-old Rebecca Archer is the only person her father is able to pull from the sinking vehicle. But as Rebecca grows up in a farmhouse haunted by the absence of her mother and baby brother, raised by a man left nearly paralyzed with grief, she wonders if her father really did save her after all. </p><p>Eventually, though, Rebecca finds solace in the company of her friends: Chuck, the sensitive son of a violently abusive father; and Lissie, an Aboriginal girl being raised alone by a perfectionist white mother. As these three young people protect and support one another, Rebecca discovers that by saving Chuck and Lissie, she may also save herself.</p><p>In her debut novel, Wendi Stewart tells the luminous, deeply imagined story of a young woman’s hard-won triumph over heartbreaking personal tragedy.</p><p><br>Praise for <i>Meadowlark</i><br><br>"Stewart's story reflects self-discovery in the midst of suffering. <i>Meadowlark</i> is a novel of tragedy infused with hope and survival."<br>~ Kirsten Parucha, <i>Quill & Quire</i><br><br>"Wendi Stewart has a smart and compelling heroine in Rebecca Archer."<br>~ Chelsea Rooney, <i>National Post</i><br><br>"<i>Meadowlark</i> is remarkable for its distinctive, clear-voiced, endearing young characters ... a very promising debut."<br>~ Dana Hansen, <i>The Winnipeg Review</i><br><br>"Read it for Wendi Stewart’s powerful evocation of loss and for the hope held throughout that these orphans will find some escape."<br>~ Jade Colbert, <i>The Globe and Mail</i><br><br>"<i>Meadowlark</i> fully explores the social dynamics between men and women, girls and boys, adults, and children, and generations; it considers the opportunities we are given or held back from because of circumstance, and directly challenges the age-old phrase, 'bloom where you are planted.'"<br>~ Sabrina Uswak, <i>FreeFall</i></p>