They remind her of her childhood, of summertime, of the fact that the earth is solid and hard. Copyright 2001 by Michelle Berry. Reprinted by permission of Random House Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Berry lives in Toronto.
TOP about the book With swift prose and acerbic observation, Michelle Berry's first novel is an incisive yet tender portrait of suburban strangeness. Three siblings gather to bury their mother, Becka, a bedridden agoraphobic. Billy and Thomas fled their mother's fearfulness long ago, but Hilary remained at home to care for Becka. Hilary's isolation has led to a few eccentricities of her own. The splintered siblings are all keepers of secrets.