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The Briars
Between

The Great War is over. But life around me . . .

It’s spinning out of control.
 

Fresh from her thirteenth birthday and the end of her school year, Emily is looking forward to summer with her three friends, Jimmy Snake and the Isaacs. With the Briars property, Lake Simcoe, and Jackson Point’s events right at hand, they have two months of fun to relish.
 

But before the first day is out, a force she hadn’t heard of, antisemitism, pokes its head in her village, threatening her Jewish friends' summer.

Jimmy’s Chippewa Band receives horrible news.
 

And when her parents’ new boss arrives, will he send them packing?

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Of course, Emily has the three Indigenous entities for guidance ... Are they being helpful, or not?

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My home. My dreams. My body. All weird. Argh!

 

The Briars Between, the first in the Emily Twillum series, immerses you in the summer of 1919.

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Drawing on local and the author’s family history, this fictional story explores this turbulent time in Canadian history.

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Review by The Georgina Post

978-1-03-918565-4 (Hardcover)
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