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Lark, Camden's father, provides her with brand-name jeans, running shoes, and makeup, while her mother's world is populated by anarchists, freaks, geeks, and hippies. Naturally, Camden prefers staying with her dad and going to the mall with his credit card and her best friend, but one summer, when Lark is recording a new album, Camden accompanies her mother, Laureen, to a healing camp on a mountain in Northern California. After their arrival, Laureen heads to San Francisco, ostensibly to go find her lover. She never comes back and unknown to her daughter is found murdered. Alone, penniless, and without much in the way of camping skills, Camden withdraws. Things begin to look up when she is befriended by Skinny, a young man in charge of the security detail at the camp who knew her mother as a child. The summer ends and Camden heads back to Toronto to find her dad, with whom she's lost touch, and it's only there she learns Laureen's disappearance is tied, unexpectedly, to the secrets Skinny tried to keep from her for months, until, finally, he couldn't. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA beautifully sustained and compassionate book about the lost, written in the voice of Camden, a young girl who is, predictably rather than suddenly, abandoned in a healing 'camp' halfway up a Mountain in California. Intelligent and wary, she does not ask for sympathy or let anyone, including the reader, near--her voice is cool, sarcastic and resigned, though Ursula Pflug's mastery gives us the continuous sense of what is not said. This is not a novel of the expected. In the stagnant daily routines on the Mountain (mud and latrines and wet clothes form a large part), the isolation of each from each, the loss of family and attempts to create new bonds however fragile, there is a continuous sense of this book's being written in the shadow of real migrant camps. This is a novel that does not allow us to turn away.--Heather Spears","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49734943310097,"sku":"NGR9781771333498","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1771333499.jpg?v=1751058754"},{"product_id":"down-from-book-ursula-pflug-9781943813575","title":"Down From","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn nice days the witch Sandrine, a wife and mother of two (or is it three?) canoes along the Stream of Consciousness to the outskirts of town where her friend Vienna lives on the edge of a swamp. At Hartwood portals litter the paths, big as dinner plates, but only if you have an eye for that sort of thing. Sometimes Vienna, who does, outlines them in circles of wildflowers or pastel chalk, to alert the unwary who might otherwise be whisked away. Instead, Vienna tells her, Sandrine should explore the disused upstairs bedrooms, haunted not by the ghosts of former inhabitants but by alternate worlds, one behind each of many brightly painted doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of world is behind each door? How to pick? Behind Pomme Verte, the door she finally tries, Sandrine meets a tall young man with red hair, who may be a son she didn't know she had. Is it possible that in the other worlds one has children who are searching for their biological mothers--just as if they had been adopted by a human and not, as it were, by another world? 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