FernFolio

Living in Victoria, British Columbia in the 1880s, Emily Carr struggles to conform to her family’s, and society’s, expectations of her. Young girls should be obedient, quiet, neat and godly. They need to learn to be good wives and mothers. But Emily is neither obedient, nor quiet, nor neat. Though she [...]

Eleven year-old Jamie is preoccupied with memory and forgetting. He lives with his mother and his amnesic aunt, Sapphy, in Wondrous Acres trailer park, having moved there after his father took off with the cashier at the MicroMart, and his aunt was struck in the head by a big metal pipe in the cherry [...]