Fourteen-year-old Kit Pitman has always lead a sheltered life in a small town on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where her mentally-challenged mother and strict grandmother hide the truth about Kit's illegitimate birth, but when Kit's grandmother dies unexpectedly, she and her mother are thrust into the harsh realities of life.
year: 2001
call number/section: 1000
subjects: teenage girls, fiction, mothers and daughters, mentally ill women, teenagers, mother-daughter relationship, newfoundland, fiction