Prairie Ostrich
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780864926807
Subjects: American literature
Description: Imogene "Egg" Murakami is eight year old and lives with her parents and her sister, Kathy, in a farm in Bittercreek, Alberta. Egg's older brother Albert has died in an accident, her father has moved to the barn, and her mother drinks to submerge her overwhelming grief. The Murakami family is not happy, but their story becomes a drama of rare insight and virtuosity.