Title: What is left the daughter
Description: Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and cousin Tilda. Wyatt's account of the astonishing--not least to him--events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. It's a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with both despair and hope, to an audience of one.
Subjects: Life change events, World War, 1939-1945, Germans, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Murder, Fiction, historical, general, Fathers and daughters, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Nova scotia, fiction
Places: Canada, Nova Scotia