The Gift Child

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2024

ISBN-13: 9781773103259

<p>How important is truth? What is normal? These are the questions raised in <i>The Gift Child</i>, Elaine McCluskey&#8217;s fictional oeuvre &#8212; a funny, poignant, sure-shot novel, populated with a community of petty criminals, beloved broadcasters, undercover intelligence agents, and more. </p><p>The novel opens with the disappearance of a man in Pollock Passage, Nova Scotia, a man last seen driving away from a government wharf with a giant tuna head in the basket of his Schwinn delivery bicycle. The man&#8217;s name is Graham Swim; he&#8217;s good at playing the harmonica and making friends. </p><p>When Graham&#8217;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 &#8212; a once-beloved TV news anchor and borderline narcissist. </p><p> When Harriett arrives in Pollock Passage, she 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. </p><p>Vintage McCluskey, <i>The Gift Child</i> showcases McCluskey&#8217;s unique ability to capture the malleability of memory and the complex absurdity and nobility of humanity. It&#8217;s a novel that&#8217;s hard to put down; it&#8217;s even harder to forget. </p>