Leaning, Leaning Over Water

by Frances Itani

Book Overview

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006392504
• ISBN13: 9780006392507
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books Perennial
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Great, subtle story about family

Itani's look at an Anglo family living literally and metaphorically on the edge of English and French cultures is an understated story about family roles, adult relationships, and childhood perceptions. The story of the family is told by Trude, the middle child: Perceptive and honest, Trude makes a refreshing narrator. Her sensitivity to the intricacies of her family's relationships with one another, along with their relationship to friends and neighbours they have rather unwillingly settled amongst (at the insistance of Trude's father, who wants to live by the river) show both the innocence and the maturity of her memories. Itani's obvious preference for description over dialogue can become tiring, but the smoothness of her writing ultimately redeems the story and makes the book one worth reading.