num_pages: 293
description: *Longlisted for the 2007 ReLit Award for Fiction*Shortlisted for four 2007 Manitoba Book Awards: Fiction, Book of the Year, Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and Best First BookBrenda Hasiuk's debut novel details eight weeks in the lives of four teens in a hardcore mining town in northern Canada. Ally and Toby, life-long locals, Rina, a Sarajevo refugee, and Adam, the returning urban native warrior, get lost in each others' individual and collective mythologies as they find love, friendship, violence, and tragedy in one long, last summer. Unflinchingly honest and disturbingly poignant, this story captures the displacement of northerners, the struggle for identity, and the restlessness of teens in isolated communities. In a place that makes them feel lonely, they try never to be alone; and in lives confounded by rituals and restraints, their search for meaning is illusive.
language: English
title: Where The Rocks Say Your Name
titlecomplete: Where The Rocks Say Your Name
ratings_count: 8
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: ReLit Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
category: Fiction, Book of the Year, Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and Best First Book
publisher: Thistledown Press