Watching You Without Me
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781487006884
Description: "Karen has come home to Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade to oversee her mother&#x2019;s funeral and tend to her affairs. Irene, a trained nurse, had spent her life caring for Karen&#x2019;s older sister Kelli, who was born with a developmental disability. Before her death, Irene had secured a placement for Kelli at the Seaside Care Facility, but after the funeral, in a fog of guilt and grief over her neglect of Irene and Kelli over the years, Karen starts to second-guess her mother&#x2019;s instructions. Not knowing which way to turn, she begins to depend on Trevor, one of Kelli&#x2019;s caregivers, for both advice and support, trusting him all the more once she learns how close he was to Irene. Slowly, Trevor insinuates himself into Karen and Kelli&#x2019;s lives. Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author Lynn Coady delivers a creepy and wholly compelling novel about the complex relationship between mothers and daughters and sisters, women and men, and who to trust and how to trust in a world where the supposedly selfless act of caregiving can camouflage a sinister self-interest."--