After the Fire

Rule, Jane

ISBN 10: 0941483452 / ISBN 13: 9780941483452

Published by Bella Books, Incorporated, 1989

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 10468316-6

Synopsis:

Karen Tasuki moves to an island off the coast of Vancouver, where she becomes fascinated by Red Smith, a pregnant single woman

Reviews: In this fluid, often witty novel set on a small rural island off the coast of Vancouver, five solitary women at different stages in life learn how to function alone as well as together. Canadian-Japanese Karen, who has left her lesbian lover of eight years, befriends Red, a young woman with an unknown background who cleans houses for three others--acrid Milly, divorced by her husband after a 20-year marriage; Henrietta, whose husband is institutionalized in Vancouver; and Miss James, an eccentric, elderly spinster. Birth, illness and death follow one another, uniting the five independent and incisively drawn protagonists. "All that time I was trying to teach you how to live alone and really take care of yourself, I was teaching myself, too," Henrietta tells Red. The resulting warmth is not saccharine but realistic, as Rule ( Memory Board ) illuminates the vagaries and pain of abandonment and loss, and the fragile joy of new bonds.
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Bibliographic Details

Title: After the Fire
Publisher: Bella Books, Incorporated
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st.