Yet Gracie seems almost ethereally indifferent to her situation. When she's ostracized at school, Luke becomes her defender, a difficult position after their loving teacher is fired for trying to protect the child from classmates' bullying.
Luke and Gracie, in their innocence, initially have no idea why the townspeople and their children turn on Gracie. Set on the Canadian prairie, as was Tumbleweed Skies (2009), Sherrard's latest movingly documents 11-year-old Luke's coming of age in 1946 as he comes to deeply love his new neighbor, Gracie, also 11. Gracie, endearingly spontaneous and affectionate, is the daughter of Raedine, who sets small-town tongues wagging when she takes a job at the local hotel, also a brothel, and people discover that her child is illegitimate.
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