Sanctuary Line
By Jane Urquhart
October 28, 2010ISBN: 978-1-59692-366-9
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 200
Price: $24.00 Rights: US Other Rights: Trident Media Group
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About the Book
By the time Liz and Mandy were teenagers, they were so close they could communicate by eye contact—cousins by birth, but friends by choice. While the two girls are very different in most respects—Liz, dark, skeptical and interested in butterflies, and Mandy, the beauty with a passion for poetry—they have an unspoken sisterhood that spans their lifetimes.
While Mandy resigns herself to her books and dreams of becoming a search-and-rescue hero, Liz secretly lives for stolen moments with Teo, the son of a seasonal Mexican farm worker. As the years pass, walks to “their river” and bits of exchanged heritage morph into a bond that at once changes and terrifies Liz. Held back by the bounds of culture and age, Teo manages to teach Liz what it means to truly love. As their innocence is stripped away one fateful night, the teenaged Liz and Mandy learn the fragility of life, and what it means when those you love prove themselves capable of the unthinkable.
Told through delicate and masterful narration, Jane Urquhart’s new novel, Sanctuary Line, seamlessly weaves together fragments of present-day farm life on the shores of Lake Erie with harrowing snapshots of deep family turmoil marred by stains of death and regret.
About the Author
Jane Urquhart is the author of five internationally acclaimed, award-winning novels including The Stone Carvers, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize, and The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General’s Award. She has also written a collection of short fiction and three books of poetry. She lives in southwestern Ontario."Author's Website