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100 1  Laveau-Harvie, Vicki,|eauthor. 
245 14 The erratics /|cVicki Laveau-Harvie. 
250    First United States edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c[2020] 
300    201 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the
       convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical 
       mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized 
       father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty. 
       When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been 
       hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their 
       parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. 
       Though their parents disowned them years before, the 
       sisters now reassert themselves in the dysfunctional 
       household: their father, undernourished and suffering from
       Stockholm syndrome, is unable to see that he is in danger 
       from his outlandish and vindictive wife. Rearranging their
       lives to be the daughters they were never allowed to be, 
       the sisters focus their efforts on helping their father 
       cope with the unending manipulations of their mother, and 
       must encounter all the characters common in the circus of 
       caretaking--oddball nurses and home helpers; over-
       opinionated hospital staff who have fallen for their 
       mother's compulsive lies--along with the pressures that 
       come with caring for elderly loved (and sometimes unloved)
       ones. Set against the natural world of remotest Alberta 
       ("in winter the cold will kill you, nothing personal"), 
       this memoir--at once dark and hopeful--shatters precedents
       about grief, anger and family trauma with surprising 
       tenderness and humor"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Laveau-Harvie, Vicki. 
650  0 Mothers and daughters|vBiography. 
650  0 Dysfunctional families|vBiography. 
650  0 Mothers|xMental health|vBiography. 
650  0 Abused husbands|vBiography. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aLaveau-Harvie, Vicki.
       |tErratics|dSydney, N.S.W. : Finch Publishing, 2018
       |z9780648100850