A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock,
Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a
Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind takes
its giant leap, Jordan May March, disabled bastard and genius, age
fourteen, limps and schemes her way towards adulthood. Trapped at
the March family's cottage, she spends her days memorizing Top 40
lists, avoiding her adoptive cousins, catching frogs and plotting
to save Yogi, the bullied, buttertart-eating bear caged at the top
of March Road. In her diary, reworking the scant facts of her
adoption, Jordan visions and revisions a hundred different
scenarios for her conception on that night in 1954 when Hurricane
Hazel tore Toronto to shreds, imagining her conception at the
Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital or the CNE horse palace, and such
parents as JFK, Louisa May Alcott, Perry Mason and the Queen of
England.
But when bear-baiting cousin Derwood finds the diary and learns
everything that the family will not face, the target of his torture
shifts from Yogi the Bear to his disabled and haunted adopted
cousin. As caged as Yogi, Jordan is drawn to desperate measures.
With its soundtrack of sixties pop songs, swamp creatures, motor
boats and the rapid-fire punning of the family's Marchspeak, When
Fenelon Falls will take you to a time and place that was never as
idyllic as it seemed, where not belonging turns the Summer of Love
into a summer of loss.
General
| Imprint: |
Coach House Books
|
| Country of origin: |
Canada |
| Release date: |
November 2006 |
| First published: |
October 2006 |
| Authors: |
Dorothy Ellen Palmer
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 127 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
300 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-55245-239-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-55245-239-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781552452394 |
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