{"product_id":"what-is-left-the-daughterbooks","title":"What Is Left the Daughter","description":"A two-time National Book Award finalist delivers a stirring tale of the passions - tender, obsessive, even murderous - that are unleashed by a wartime love triangle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges - the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin Tilda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSetting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions and the wartime perfidy at its core is the arrival of the German student Hans Mohring, carrying only a satchel. Actual historical incidents - including a German U-boat's sinking of the Nova Scotia-Newfoundland ferry Caribou - lend intense narrative power to Norman's uncannily layered story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWyatt's account of the astonishing events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. \u003cb\u003eWhat Is Left the Daughter\u003c\/b\u003e is Howard Norman at his celebrated best.","brand":"Norman, Howard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":43768362074336,"sku":"","price":13.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9b79d797-3931-42db-9061-b0c3c0a0916f.jpg?v=1672340930","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/what-is-left-the-daughterbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}