Gichigami by Lindsey Steffes - 9781625348500

GichigamiA Novel\nAuthor(s): Lindsey Steffes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625348500, 978-1625348500\nSynopsis\nOne December evening, when 13-year-old Marta crosses the frozen Lake Superior and reaches the home she shares with her father, she finds a woman standing at their door. As Marta approaches, she realizes the woman, who looks like a tropical bird caught in the snow, is her mother whod abruptly left them six years before. Marta hopes this is a turning point, that her mother will stay this timedespite hating this town, this island, and their creaky, towering Victorian house. But not everyone in town is thrilled with her mothers arrival, least of all her dad.\n\n Almost as soon as she arrives, however, Martas mother abruptly vanishes again, nowhere to be found, leaving Marta with more questions than answers. Her father denies her mother was ever there and Marta is left wit.