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It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estranged daughter to come home, with the grandson he has never seen. But this is an uneasy reunion. Fiercely independent, Vera has been on her own since running away at nineteen – first to the army, and then to Toronto. Now, for the sake of her young son, she must swallow her pride and return home after seventeen years. As the story gradually unfolds, the past confronts the present in unexpected ways as the silence surrounding Vera’s brother is finally shattered and the truth behind Vera’s long absence revealed. With its tenderness, humour, and vivid evocation of character and place, Homesick confirms Guy Vanderhaeghe’s reputation as one of Canada’s most engaging and accomplished storytellers.

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“Homesick is one of those books you don’t want to put down and one that haunts you long after you have. . . . It is not just good, it is wise and compassionate.…”
–Edmonton Journal

“Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to bring characters to life with searing fidelity.…Homesick is a powerful and moving novel.”
–Globe and Mail

“It is a fine, rare accomplishment.”
–Books in Canada

“He skillfully interweaves the lives of one of the most contrary families in literature, placing them right up there with Faulkner’s Snopse family for eccentricity and misplaced pride.…”
–Halifax Chronicle Herald

“One has only to read the first page of Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Homesick to see why his books have garnered him international awards and the reputation as one of Canada’s most promising young writers.…Vanderhaeghe’s lush, highly readable prose brings the setting and the characters to vivid, sparkling life. They could be our neighbours – they could be us. This is the story of any family that has ever let pride and stubbornness stand in the way of a fulfilling relationship.”
–Regina Leader-Post

“If great art is that which holds a mirror up to nature, as was once said, then Homesick is great art.”
–Daily News (Halifax)

“[Vanderhaeghe’s characters] lift themselves by pride and love from the ordinariness of their world.”
–Ottawa Citizen

“Vanderhaeghe has an unerring eye for the prairie landscape and a shrewd ear for the ironies of small-town conversation.…He balances his dramatization of the cycle of life with exuberant storytelling.…”
–London Free Press

“Beautifully written…Vanderhaeghe writes in a spare, poetic prose that is deceptively simple. He used his medium very effectively to capture both the icy harshness and the warmth of family life.…Homesick is an unexpectedly powerful work.…His extraordinary talents deserve wide recognition.”
–Kingston Whig-Standard

“His stories and novels are character studies par excellence.…”
–Andreas Schroeder

“Guy Vanderhaeghe writes about what he knows best: people, their sense of mortality, their difficulty in being good during a difficult time.…The dialogue and the characters are eclectic and real.”
–Vancouver Sun

“Homesick is a compelling yarn about the intensity of family feelings and relationships and how all too often it’s what isn’t, rather than what is said that counts the most.”
–Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon)

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It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estranged daughter to come home, with the grandson he has never seen. But this is an uneasy reunion. Fiercely independent, Vera has been on her own since running away at nineteen ? first to the army, and then to Toronto. Now, for the sake of her young son, she must swallow her pride and return home after seventeen years. As the story gradually unfolds, the past confronts the present in unexpected ways as the silence surrounding Vera?s brother is finally shattered and the truth behind Vera?s long absence revealed. With its tenderness, humour, and vivid evocation of character and place, Homesick confirms Guy Vanderhaeghe?s reputation as one of Canada?s most engaging and accomplished storytellers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McClelland & Stewart (October 7, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0771086954
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0771086953
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces

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Debra Purdy Kong

Poignant Study of Misunderstanding and Forgiveness

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2012

Thirty-six-year-old Vera Miller doesn't want to return to her father's home in the small town of Connaught, Saskatchewan, but she feels there's little choice. As a single mother with a dead-end job and a twelve-year-old boy who's falling under negative influences, it's time to take action. The problem is that Vera's been angry with her father since before she left home seventeen years earlier, and her anger hasn't faded.

Homesick is a beautifully written story about a family who can't accept, or abide, one another's strongest traits, or flaws, as the case may be. There are secrets and memories that haunt Vera and her father Alec. Fences need to be mended, yet each cannot quite fully take that final step, and this makes the story riveting and painful.

I loved the fact that this isn't a story about horrible abuse or murder, yet judging from the level of Vera's anger I thought it might be in the opening chapters. Don't get me wrong, there are serious issues in a story dominated by obstinate personalities and misunderstandings. It's about how elusive forgiveness can be, and it's a great read.

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shannon miller

Please read this book...

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2001

Without going into the actual storyline too deeply, I will only say that this book is beautiful and sad and I think accurately portrays the conflicting feelings of people who love and resent their family members. The main character in the book is Vera, who has left her father and disabled brother in Saskatchewan to forge a new life for herself in Toronto and ends up returning feeling not quite defeated but definitely weathered. Her relationships with her son and her aging father are complicated and recognizable and the ending was surprising as the past comes back at first to hurt and then to heal. I grew up in Saskatchewan and many familiar characters of the small town are present in the story...it is worth reading if for no other reason than to visit the prairie landscape, but the characters will pull you in as well.

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Jim Priebe

One of Canada's Best

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2000

The story is a model of conflict between generations. Vera, the protagonist, headstrong daughter, wonderful mother, seargant!, good wife can be admired and detested, depending on the scene. But she is one of the great characters of Canadian fiction. Alec, the grandfather, will be mainly disliked for his habits and assumptions about women, but he can be understood as well. Daniel, son and grandson, will be liked by almost all, even though he has no outstanding "manly" qualities, he loves his grandfather, and is loyal to the end. Characterization marks great fiction. Here it is.

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