★作者Kim Spencer曾獲加拿大TD兒童文學獎、西北太平洋文學獎等殊榮

A poignant coming-of-age YA featuring an Indigenous teen girl grappling with the effects of intergenerational trauma while navigating school, family and young love.

It is 1990. Morgan has lived all her life in the small fishing town of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia. Ever since her mom took off when she was ten, Morgan has kept an eye on her dad, a commercial fisherman who works hard and occasionally parties even harder. After struggling to keep up and find a place at a public high school, Morgan's best friend Skye convinces her to attend an alternate school.

There, she meets Nate. Both cute and intelligent, Nate introduces her to a wider worldview, including music, movies and books, and becomes a lifeline after an unimaginable tragedy strikes. In the aftermath, Morgan learns hard truths about her mother's painful past and the resulting intergenerational effects of that trauma, and as she struggles to come to terms with her new reality, an unexpected development offers a chance of a fresh start, with love and forgiveness at its core.

 

Kim Spencer is an award-winning, bestselling author. Her debut novel, Weird Rules to Follow, received the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award, the 2023 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, and the 2023 Jean Little First-Novel Award. The book was named to the USBBY Outstanding International Books list and the IBBY Honour List, earned a Kirkus starred review, and was a finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Literary Award. Kim is a member of the Gitxaala Nation and lives in northwest British Columbia.