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Author Jacobsen, Annie, 1946-2005.

Title Watermelon syrup : a novel / Annie Jacobsen ; with Jane Finlay-Young and Di Brandt.

Publication Info. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages).
Series Life writing series
Life writing series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Summary Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person. At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother during.
Subject Ontario -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Ontario. (OCoLC)fst01204832
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Electronic books.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Electronic books.
Added Author Brandt, Di, 1952-
Finlay-Young, Jane, 1958-
Other Form: Print version: Jacobsen, Annie, 1946-2005. Watermelon syrup. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2007 9781554580057 1554580056 (OCoLC)123114302
ISBN 9781435628434 (electronic bk.)
1435628438 (electronic bk.)
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