A Student of Weather
A Student of Weather
Author: Elizabeth Hay
Desc: From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful fastidious Lucinda and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce at first a strange self-possessed child later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive nature of art. Their rivalry sets the stage for all that follows in a narrative spanning over thirty years beginning in Saskatchewan and moving in the decades following the war to Ottawa and New York City. Disarming vividly told unforgettable this is a story about the mistakes we make that never go away about how the things we want to keep vanish and the things we want to lose return to haunt us.