TINFOIL SKY

Tundra, Toronto, 2012, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 978-1-77049-277-6.  Hard cover, 216 pages.  Unread copy, not remaindered; tight binding; bit of edge wear.  Dust jacket with price intact has edge and cover wear, short tear at spine head.  ‘This will be their eleventh move in four years, but from the way her mother says home, Mel hopes Cecily means the place you can always go back to – that kind of home.  This time they aren’t leaving with no place to go.  They are going to her grandmother’s.  Mel has good reason not to trust in the promise of having a real home and family.  Promises come easily to Cecily.  Keeping them doesn’t.  When Mel’s grandmother refuses to let them in, Mel and Cecily live out of their broken-down station wagon.  Mel sings for spare change on street corners while Cecily falls into her old ways.  They manage to get by until the awful day when Cecily leaves Mel for a while – and doesn’t come back.  Another promise is broken, and this time there really is no place to go.’ (from front flap)