House on the river
Subtitle: a summer journey
By: Nessa Rapoport.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harmony Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Rapoport, Nessa -- Travel -- Ontario; Rapoport, Nessa -- Family; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Boats and boating -- Ontario -- Trent-Severn Waterway; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Houseboats -- Ontario; Family -- Ontario; Trent-Severn Waterway (Ont.) -- Description and travel; Ontario -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Description: "One August, Nessa Rapoport rented a houseboat to travel through the blue lakes and stone canals of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario with her children, mother, and uncle and aunt. At the end of the journey was a small Canadian town called Bobcaygeon, where Rapoport and her mother and uncle had once spent dreamy summers of reading and reverie in an old house on a green river." "Although the purpose of the trip was to show her young children the setting of her summers when she was their age, Nessa Rapoport discovered that all three generations of her family were floating toward an encounter with the past." "House on the River explores the power of memory to shape a person's life, the deep bonds across generations, the reconciliation of mothers and daughters, and the way loss can be distilled into a source of consolation. It is the story of an enchanting journey on water and an inner journey inflected by a vibrant and joyful relationship to family and faith."--BOOK JACKET.