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Step Closer
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$32.99 |
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11/05/2009 |
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Hardcover
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In the wake of the 2004
tsunami, Emily, a young Canadian woman living in Spain, seeks to understand a
tragedy in her recent past involving two friends, Gavin and Marcus, along the
Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail. Emily recreates her friends’ actions
from that fateful summer, piecing together what she knows of their fractured
relationship—a connection that stretches back into their adolescence and an
event that sent one boy to jail, while the other was allowed to go free. As
Emily peels back the layers of the friends she thought she knew, she must also
come to terms with her own role in the tragedy that summer and with the secrets
that remain.
Spanning the lakes of
Ontario, the cliffs of Scotland and the dusty Compostela trail, Step Closer
is an evocative and suspenseful novel that explores the meaning of identity
and the lifelong struggle to find peace and belonging.
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Critical Praise for
Step Closer
“An emotionally powerful novel about loss and connection. Beautiful.”
—
NOW Magazine on This Body
“McWatt’s is a positive novel, a novel that sings of the body
triumphant, human skin and spirit transcending discrimination and racism, yet it
is not without its dark side.”
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Edmonton Journal on This Body
“A revelation. . . . One of those rare novels with a lingering
life, its characters continuing to move and breathe and speak long after the
reading is done.”
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The Globe and Mail on This Body
“If you’re interested in what happens to the novel—originally an
art form of the 19th century—when it finds itself on the surf-line of
21st-century displacements and emigrations, read this insistent and passionate
book by Tessa McWatt.”
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John Berger
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