Losing Eddie

by Deborah Joy Corey

Book Overview

Deborah Joy Corey captures the voice of rural poverty and the voice of a single, struggling family in southeastern Canada. The voice belongs to an innocent nine-year-old girl, who, throughout this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094557567X
• ISBN13: 9780945575672
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Losing Eddie

A nine year old girl named Laura goes through a lot of changes during her summer vacation off from school. Deborah Joy Corey expresses in this novel just how hard and fast it is to grow up in the rural are of New Brunswick, where this novel is based. Little Laura is filled with problems that she faces and over comes. The problem of her sister getting abused by her husband, brings thoughts to Laura of why people fight so much, and why it always ends on the down side. Also the death of Laura's 15 year old brother Eddie is a devastation to the family. Eddie had been in reform school for drinking and driving, and is already an alcholic just like his father. The death of Eddie makes her Mother go crazy. She has two nervous break downs and put in an asylum. Laura cannot understand why her Mama is so sick. Although she does understand that her best friend Marilyn Morris's mother is sick and dies. Laura experiences many related deaths in this novel, another is the death of her Mama's premature baby. And the near death of her younger brother Bucky. Deborah Joy Corey tries to prove to the reader from this book that it is possible to overcome anything no matter what the issue is. As Laura returns back to school at the end of the summer she does not fully understand why the problems that happened over the summer had to happen. Although she does understand that it is just something that people go though because "God must want it to happen". No family is as perfect as young Laura expected. This Novel reveals this to us in a thrilling, exciting and suspenseful way.