The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay

In 1916, Sisters Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick, Canada, a hardscrabble world of potato farms, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From Gone, the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, to the darkly comic Wake, which follows the grown siblings catastrophic efforts to escort the body of their father Wild Bill Hillock to his funeral, these stories of Idella and Avis offer a compelling and wry vision of two remarkable women. The vivid characters include Idellas philandering husband, her bewilderingly difficult motherinlaw, and Avis, whose serial romantic disasters never quell her irrepressible spirit. Jensens work evokes a time gone by and reads like an instant American classic.