2015_Baygirl

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Baygirl by Heather T. Smith ===== Orca Book Publishers

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Newfoundland teen Kit Ryan faces new love and loss after relocating from her small hometown of Parsons Bay to the big city of St. John's. Kit Ryan’s tumultuous family life, with an abusive, alcoholic father and acquiescent mother, is only tempered by visits to her loving Nan and best friend Anne-Marie. This changes when Kit’s father loses his fishing job and the family must move to the big city of St. John’s. There, Kit befriends an unlikely cast of characters: her once-successful Uncle, now fighting his own demons, a curmudgeonly, yet lovable older neighbor, and new love interest Elliot. These people help Kit to see beyond her father’s outbursts, to understand alcoholism as a nuanced disease. But other events threaten Kit’s new understanding of her situation. Will she emerge unscathed?

View excerpt here.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Newfoundland/ID/2413155783/