Fourteen-year-old Claire spends August with her Mother on the family farm.

An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settler-colonial experience.

Janey Phair has it all--good looks, good humour, and two loving families. So why isn't she happy? When she's in Toronto, she longs for Winnipeg; when she's with one best friend, she misses the other; and her loyalty and love for her older sister may stand in the way of her family's finding a new mother at last. With Janey Phair, readers will discover that nothing's perfect, and happiness comes from choosing what's most important to you, and holding on ...

When Janey's father, hated for being an abolitionist and Mormon, goes away on business, greedy relatives plan to claim her family's plantation and sell the black servants as slaves.