Format: Paperback
Suggested Retail Price: $24.95
Publisher: 4th Floor Press, Inc. (Dec 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1897530331 | ISBN-13: 978-1-897530-33-7
Dimensions: 446 Pages | 22.4 x 14.7 x 3.3 cm | 726 g
Cover Artist: J. Mayne, M.F.A.
Selling: First Edition SOLD OUT
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Libraries: Nanton, Okotoks, Turner Valley, High River, Vulcan, Red Deer, Nanaimo, B.C.
About Becoming Sand
Becoming Sand is a gripping work of Canadian literary fiction that sweeps the reader back in time, through generations of decisions that lead to the separation and disintegration of one family. Author LG Pomerleau, a descendant of one of the founding families of Quebec, weaves a tale so fast-paced and enthralling, filled with tension, deceit, and heartbreaking realism, it cannot be put down.
In the 1600s , a dynasty is founded on bitterness carried over from the past and cruelty and hardship in the New World. From a fur-trader in New France, to a land-owner in Quebec, to homesteaders in the 1920s, each generation faces its challenges. By the 1960s, the family is prosperously established in Alberta, but a taint of perversion and misplaced pride is wearing away at the rock of their cultural heritage and their family cohesion.The pressure to assimilate to the dominant English-speaking culture and the modern world overshadow all else. Family bonds unravel, despite the efforts of the matriarch, Marie-Eve, to preserve the pebbles of their heritage. Four modern women in the family must struggle to release the tentacles of abuse, despair and selfishness which threaten to pull them under. Will the family survive? Or will everything become no more… than sand?
Purchase Becoming Sand in Alberta
Black Diamond: Blue Rock Gallery
Calgary: | Chapters Dalhousie | Chapters Shawnessy | Chapters Southland
Red Deer: Sunworks
A few copies are still in stock at the above venues only. Future readers will have access by e-books only. Thanks to my wonderful readers for their support!
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