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How the Blessed Live

How the Blessed Live

By Susannah M. Smith
Categories: Fiction
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781770561007, 176 pages, January 2002
Ebook (PDF) : 9781770560994, 176 pages, May 2002
Paperback : 9781552451007, 176 pages, May 2002
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On an isolated island in Lake Ontario live twins Lucy and Levi and their father, Daniel. While Daniel desperately mourns for his dead wife, Levi and Lucy grow up ever more entwined in their enchanted childhood of fairy tales and rhymes.

But when a fissure in the fragile cocoon of the family explodes into a chasm, each of the three is hurled in a different direction. Soon, there emerges a geographical triangle – Vancouver, Montreal, the island – that also maps out the terrain of love and the territory of family.

Part Egyptian myth, part Alice in Wonderland, How the Blessed Live is an ethereally quiet, unexpected debut from a novelist to be watched.