In 1967, 43-year-old Wyatt Hillyer reveals What Is Left the Daughter when he writes his estranged daughter a letter, describing the troubling events that occurred 26 years earlier. His parents simultaneously committed suicide over the same woman and Hillyer was sent to live with relatives in a small coastal community in Nova Scotia where, as World War II drew increasingly close, otherwise decent citizens were driven to desperate acts. Howard Norman’s exploration of a dark side of human nature has been praised for powerful storytelling and poetic writing.
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