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Summary:

"A funny, poignant, sure-shot novel, populated with a community of petty criminals, beloved broadcasters, undercover intelligence agents, and more. Graham Swim is good at playing the harmonica and making friends, but one day he disappears in Pollock Passage, Nova Scotia. The last sighting of Graham is him riding away from a government wharf with a giant tuna head in the basket of his Schwinn delivery bicycle. When Graham's cousin Harriett decides to investigate his disappearance, she comes up against her own family history. A news photographer now jobless and adrift, Harriett has lived most of her life in the shadow of her larger-than-life father -- a once-beloved TV news anchor and borderline narcissist. Arriving in Pollock Passage, Harriet meets a stranger who tells her he is researching the Shag Harbour UFO mystery. While this stranger helps Harriett reconnect with pieces of herself she thought long-dead, she also learns that what she knows about her father may not be true. Vintage McCluskey, The Gift Child showcases McCluskey's unique ability to capture the malleability of memory and the complex absurdity and nobility of humanity. It's a novel that's hard to put down; it's even harder to forget."-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

McCluskey, Elaine, 1955- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The gift child [by McCluskey, E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Gift child [by McCluskey, E.] (Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, 2024 — ISBN 1773103245; ISBN 9781773103242)

Subjects:

Missing persons — Fiction

Cousins — Fiction

Nova Scotia — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PR9199.4.M4236 G54 2024

ISBNs:

9781773103259 (electronic book)
1773103253 (electronic book)
9781773103242 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1396569296

Other Control Numbers:

3796138 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306098144