Jamie Zeppa
Author
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Language
English
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A new face of fiction debut novel from the beloved writer Jamie Zeppa, author of "Beyond the Sky and the Earth". As eight-year-old Dawn waits for her father early one autumn morning at the front door of her grandparents' house, Jamie Zeppa immediately draws us into the tangled, tumultuous story of the Turner family of Saule Ste. Marie. From here we travel back two generations into the past to the Great Depression and to the childhood of granddad Frank...
Author
Language
English
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In the tradition of Iron and Silk and Touch the Dragon, Jamie Zeppa’s memoir of her years in Bhutan is the story of a young woman’s self-discovery in a foreign land. It is also the exciting début of a new voice in travel writing.
When she left for the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan in 1988, Zeppa was committing herself to two years of teaching and a daunting new experience. A week on a Caribbean beach had been her only...
When she left for the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan in 1988, Zeppa was committing herself to two years of teaching and a daunting new experience. A week on a Caribbean beach had been her only...