Love Object

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Width:  5.5  Inches
Height:  8.5  Inches
Pages:  300
Format:  Paperback
Publication Date:  January 6, 2002
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

Description

It‘s no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy. People have thought so ever since she first came to town when she was a teenager. But outside her own family, no one knows the depth of her mental illness. For her daughter, Mercy, Sylvia‘s illness is at once a source of agony and fascination.

Mercy‘s mother is absent from her life on several occasions. First, she is taken away to a mental hospital for treatment. Later, on a summer night in the early 1980s, Sylvia disappears entirely, never to be seen again. Her absence is pivotal in Mercy‘s life.

Populated by an array of compelling characters the mad mother, the lovelorn father, the crossdressing younger brother, the quirky grandmother Love Object is a gripping account of the coming-of-age of a teenage girl in rural Ontario in the 1980s.

Author

Sally Cooper has had her fiction published in numerous literary journals. She currently teaches at Humber College. Love Object is her first novel.

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