![]() ![]() Not only must she contend with poverty as her father struggles to eke out a living, Beth also suffers the consequences of a father whose mental stability precipitously declines after staving off a bear attack. The relentless pace of life on the farm – milking the cows, cooking for the field hands, canning, preserving, harvesting – is compounded by the Weeks’s domestic problems. This a remarkable debut.Īnderson-Dargatz casts a look back to WWII and re-creates the struggles of Beth Weeks, a young woman living with her parents and brother on a farm in British Columbia. Such is her power in evoking time and place. Entering the world in 1963, Anderson-Dargatz is a contemporary of Douglas Coupland and the Gen-X set. Halfway through Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s debut novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, I flipped to the publication data expecting to confirm my suspicions that the author was born sometime around the Great Depression.
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