The water here is never blue, intrigue and lies from an uncommon child, Shelagh Plunkett
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The water here is never blue, intrigue and lies from an uncommon child, Shelagh Plunkett
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non fiction
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The water here is never blue
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Shelagh Plunkett
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intrigue and lies from an uncommon child
Summary
In the 1970s, Shelagh Plunkett, a teenage girl from Vancouver, travels with her middle-class family to Guyana and Indonesia, where her father, a civil engineer, has been posted to help with those countries' water systems. The secrecy and double life of this teenager in a foreign land is paralleled by the mysterious comings and goings of her beloved but distant father. Guyana is nationalizing Canada's bauxite mines, and Indonesians are slaughtering East Timorese a few miles away. Why is their phone tapped, why do they always have to have a suitcase packed, and why is her father working on a water project on a parched island? An adolescent comes of age and is indelibly marked by her years abroad. But it is the adult narrator who ultimately struggles with the truth of who her father was
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