This Hidden Thing - Couverture souple

Dueck, Dora

 
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Synopsis

The young woman standing at the back door of the prosperous Winnipeg house that cold day in 1927 knew she had to have work. An immigrant, she needed to help her family. But she had no idea, when she finally got inside the house to be a domestic, that her experiences there would mark her for the rest of her life. This Hidden Thing reminds us how dangerous and powerful secrets can be. This is a lyrical and moving novel that offers one woman's compelling, ordinary, and surprising life.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dora Dueck is author of the novels Under the Still Standing Sun, This Hidden Thing, and All That Belongs; and the short story collection What You Get At Home (winner of the High Plains Book Award). In 2014 she was the winner of the Malahat Review Novella Prize. In 2022 she published a collection of personal essays & memoir, Return Stroke. She lives in British Columbia.

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