Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work
as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo,
Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome
philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy,
and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences,
happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is
transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is
called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she
returns a changed person.
At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother
during the family's journey from Russia to Canada. In it she reads
of a tragedy kept secret for years, one hat reconciles her early
tmemories of her mother as joyful and loving with the burdened
woman she became in Canada. Lexi returns to Waterloo, where a
crisis of her own, coupled with the knowledge of this secret,
serves as the catalyst for her realization that, unlike her mother,
she must create her own destiny.
"Watermelon Syrup" is a classic bildungsroman: the tale of a
naive young woman at the crossroads of a traditional, restrictive
world and a modern one with its freedom, risks, and
responsibilities.
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