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Wildwood
Wildwood | Elinor Florence
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To earn her inheritance, a single mother from Arizona must spend a year enduring pioneer conditions in the remote Alberta backwoods. If she makes it through the year, she can sell the land to fund her daughters medical treatment. But a local farmer hopes to stop her plan to sell to an oil company.
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Wildwood | Elinor Florence
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DNF @ 35%

As a Canadian, I love Canadiana, but this book was bogged down in strange minutiae, like the protag marvelling over Tim Hortons coffee, our « Monopoly money », and gun legislation. It just didn‘t serve to deepen anything.

Wildwood was grant-funded and the grant panels often award project with strong Canadian identities, which is why I suspect the text was so aggressively cheering for Canada. It just didn‘t work for me.

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Wildwood | Elinor Florence
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The pollen is making it too miserable to be outside here so I‘ll just read about a woman and her daughter who go to live in her great aunt‘s home, electricity and plumbing free, on the edge of the wilderness for a year as a condition of her inheritance. (Partial photobomb by Jazz who wanted to rub his head against the phone as I took the picture.)

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Wildwood | Elinor Florence
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This was really good! A modern day pioneer like Susanna Moodie (she even references Moodie in the book). Look for it in February. Thanks to Dundurn for sending.

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Wildwood | Elinor Florence
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I‘m liking this so far! Funny little descriptions of an American settling into western Canada and discovering Canadian Tire, loonies and toonies. 😁😁