 [ Large Image ] | Maggie’s Family Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $49.95 9781894031592 / Fine / 288 pp Edition is out of print In Susan Haley’s sixth novel, Maggie Ribbinski returns with her daughters (and without their father) to the small Nova Scotia resort town where she was raised. Soon after moving into her late mother’s house, Maggie has a chance encounter with a crush from her teenage years. Tom and his band of theatre friends quickly infiltrate Maggie’s brittle relationship with her daughters, turning it on its head. In a summer of complicated and unconventional relationships, Maggie is forced to redefine her notions of family. Haley shows an excellent capacity for handling her characters’ quirks, pushing the borders of familial, heterosexual and homosexual relationships to locate a tenuous middle ground that ultimately comes closer to reality than any of the conventions. With a remarkable ear for both dialogue and thought, Haley has written a novel that is truly engaging. A complex and humorous novel about love and family in a Nova Scotia resort town. Review: “Haley’s characters and settings are brought to life so vividly that I began to feel like another member of Maggie’s family.” Geist “More nuanced than any short review can express, Maggie’s Family is a gently probing, funny and wise examination of what it means to be a family.” Kerry Riley, Globe and Mail Is a special edition of the book: 9781894031585 | Other Books by this Author |  | Petitot: A Novel Susan Haley 2013 / Ficton / $31.95 CAN 9781554471263 / Trade paper / 368 pp |  | The Complaints Department Susan Haley 2005 / Fiction / $27.95 CAN 9781894031981 / Trade paper / 336 pp |  | The Murder of Medicine Bear Susan Haley 2003 / Fiction / $49.95 CAN 9781894031776 / Fine / 464 pp |  | The Murder of Medicine Bear Susan Haley 2003 / Fiction / $27.95 CAN 9781894031769 / Trade paper / 464 pp |  | Maggie’s Family Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $21.95 CAN 9781894031585 / Trade paper / 288 pp |  | The Complaints Department Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $49.95 CAN 9781894031257 / Fine / 304 pp |  | The Complaints Department Susan Haley 2002 / Fiction / $18.95 CAN 9781894031264 / Trade paper / 304 pp |  | Blame it on the Spruce Budworm Susan Haley 1998 / Fiction / $17.95 CAN 9781894031066 / Trade paper / 240 pp |
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