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Author: Priscila Uppal
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May 2002
Sins and Sisterhoods
by Clara Thomas
The Divine Economy of Salvation, Priscila Uppal's first and outstandingly successful novel, brings together two well-worn subsets of fiction: stories of teenage girls in a boarding school, and of nuns in a convent. "My name was Angela H. then. You may remember me," Sister Angela begins, a nun of twenty years' standing in a small and impoverished convent. Read more...
| JunJul 2002
 | The Divine Economy of Salvation
by Priscila Uppal
Doubleday
405 pages $32.95 cloth
ISBN: 0385658044
|  | Heave
by Christy Ann Conlin
Doubleday Canada
322 pages $29.95 paper
ISBN: 0385658079
|  | Spelling Mississippi
by Marnie Woodrow
Knopf Canada
386 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974317
| |  | Rush Home Road
by Lori Lansens
Knopf Canada
547 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974503
|  | Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada
291 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676974791
|  | The Heart Does Not Bend
by Makeda Silvera
Random House Canada
264 pages $32.95 cloth
ISBN: 0679311343
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First Novels
by W.P Kinsella
The first book I read for the 2002 season, Crow Lake, by Mary Lawson, (Knopf Canada, 294pages, ISBN: 0676974791), is a spellbinding story and likely to be collecting accolades at the end of the year. The bitter land and climate of Northern Ontario are like characters in this story of four orphaned children struggling to stay together as a family. Read more...
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