num_pages: 294
description: Living on a frontier farm in 1941 western Canada, fifteen-year-old Beth, a sensitive, emotionally wounded young girl, copes with an abusive parent and conflicts over her sexuality as she struggles to come to terms with a harsh life and a sense of self-identity. A first novel.
language: English
title: The Cure for Death by Lightning
titlecomplete: The Cure for Death by Lightning
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, Coming Of Age, Canadian Literature, Canada, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 6584
places: Adams Plateau, British Columbia
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt