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: World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Life change events, Germans, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Canada, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Événements stressants de la vie, Romans, nouvelles
Places: Canada, Nova Scotia