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My memories are so like that hat full of butterflies, some already deteriorating the moment they are collected, some breathed back to life now and again, for a brief moment, by the scent on a passing wind-the smell of an orange, perhaps, or a whiff of brown-sugar fudge-before drifting away, just out of my reach. How much of myself flits away with each of these tattered memories' How much of myself have I already lost' (Turtle Valley, p. 289) Kat has returned with her disabled husband and young son to her family's homestead in Turtle Valley, in British Columbia's Shuswap-Thompson area. Fire is sweeping through the valley in a ruthless progression toward the farm and they have come to help her frail parents pack up their belongings. Kat's mother, Beth, (the now elderly protagonist of Anderson-Dargatz's first novel, the award-winning The Cure for Death by Lightning) is weighed down by her ailing husband, Gus, and by generations of accumulated detritus. But there is something else weighing her down, a secret she has guarded all her life. Kat is determined to get to its source before fire eats up all that is left of the family's memories. Kat has her own burdens. Her father is dying, an

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Author

Recorded Books, Inc.;Anderson-Dargatz, Gail

Publisher

Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780676978865

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.53 / 5 (462 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14