"The Briars Between"

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After a sorrowful spring, thirteen-year-old Emily is eager to spend her summer with her friends. What a better place to be than in one of the province’s beloved resort towns? Yet, despite the Great War’s end and the Spanish flu pandemic waning, life around her is unstable. Much to her horror, things she knows nothing about flows into her community. Antisemitic tracks her Jewish friends to their cottage. The Canadian government undermines her friend’s Chippewa band. Pressures may cause her family to leave their home. Her friends, her body, her dreams, her future; they’re weird and shifting. Aargh! Then, there are those spirits taking her on dreamwalks. Are they being helpful, or not? -- Built around the author’s family history, Emily’s story is an ode to the Briars property, a coming-of-age saga, and a fictional exploration of a turbulent time in Canadian history. Readers of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” will also enjoy “The Briars Between”.