Hardscratch Row

By Anne Cameron

Of the six grown-up siblings at the heart of the story, one lives with children she and her husband produced; one has children by more than one father, including three brothers she calls the Three Wise Men; and one has a foster child whose short past is too unbearable to contemplate.

The others don't have families - unless you count the eccentric brother who takes on the bad-girl niece because she sees the same ghosts he does, or the sister and her woman lover who end up co-parenting a troubled little boy, or the other sister who mothers some of her kids' half-siblings when their real mother takes off without warning.

And just to keep everyone on their toes, there are regular but unpredictable appearances by the squeyanx, a character related to no one and to everyone, part ghost, part trickster, part Greek chorus, who is visible only to those who want to see.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550172905
• ISBN13: 9781550172904
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

I read this in One Sitting.

I never read a book all the way through in one sitting. This one was amazing. It's the sequel to Wedding Cakes, Rats, and Rodeo Queens, but can be read all by itself. The characters, the plot, the emotion involved in this book make it an experience that I won't soon forget. Bravo Anne.