{"product_id":"eight-daysbooks","title":"Eight Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGovernor General’s award-winning author Teresa Toten’s story about one girl’s transformative eight-day road-trip to retrieve her mother’s body.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do you face a heartbreaking past?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne day at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr as Aggie says, one crisis at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Teresa Toten’s compelling new novel \u003ci\u003eEight Days\u003c\/i\u003e, Samantha finds out that the mother she thought had died years ago has actually just passed away. Added to this charged secret is her recovering alcoholic grandfather’s strange behaviour and sudden insistence that he take Sami back to Chicago to retrieve her mother’s body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuckily, Sami’s beloved neighbour and surrogate mother figure, Aggie, insists on coming on the road trip, bringing along her quirky sense of humour and fantastic wig collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eight-day journey takes us from Toronto to Chicago and back again, as Sami, an American living with her grandfather in a Muslim-dominated apartment complex in Toronto, struggles to find out who she is and where she belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInfused with warmth and love, even as family struggles and secrets are torn open, \u003ci\u003eEight Days\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately about forgiveness and strength in community. It is truly a novel for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toten, Teresa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ Kids Fiction 8-12","offer_id":48465830412512,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_10db8a14-4cc2-4513-823d-cff9b336e016.jpg?v=1766505604","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/eight-daysbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}